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Definition of Silver birch
1. Noun. European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches.
Group relationships: Betula, Genus Betula
Generic synonyms: Birch, Birch Tree
Definition of Silver birch
1. Noun. A European deciduous tree, ''Betula pendula'', characterised by white peeling bark and drooping branches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Birch
Literary usage of Silver birch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Deirdre Wed and Other Poems by Herbert Trench (1901)
"ODE ON A silver birch in St fames' Park AT USE, I will show thee, on a grassy
mound Moving with tufted shadows, albeit bare Herself, for yet young April ..."
2. The Land of the North Wind, Or, Travels Among the Laplanders and the by Edward Rae (1875)
"... in Silver-birch Forests—Cross the Frontier of Russian Lapland by the Light of
the Midnight Sun—Watershed of ..."
3. The Land of the North Wind: Or, Travels Among the Laplanders and the Samoyedes by Edward Rae (1875)
"... in Silver-birch Forests—Cross the Frontier of Russian Lapland by the Light of
the Midnight Sun—Watershed of Rivers Alten and Muonio—Midnight ..."
4. By Neva's Waters: Being an Episode in the Secret History of Alexander the by John R. Carling (1907)
"... CHAPTER III THE INN OF THE silver birch A WINTER night, frosty and still.
The northern stars, set in a sky of steely blue, twinkled over a plain ..."
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