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/sˈɪlvər bərtʃ/ Listen

Silver birch

noun

European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches. Synonyms: Betula pendula, common birch, European white birch.

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"Silver birch" Quotes from Famous Books

... the groups of yellow and silver birch that grow like beautiful bouquets along the trail. Druids built their altars and worshiped beneath the aged oaks, but surely there were no lovely groups of white and yellow birch there, or they would ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

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... into Indian summer, but it was still hot. With the perspiration dripping from me one afternoon, I whirled and drove the keen axe into a silver birch's side, seldom turning my eyes from the shower of white chips, because looking up between the slender stems one could see the black smoke of a thrasher streaking the prairie. The crops of the man who employed it had escaped damage, ...

— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

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... in sunshine. Some of them are like gigantic wildernesses of upheaved pudding stone. Then, as the voyage progresses, the hillsides put on greenery, sombre when it is pine, cheerful when the hangings are supplied by the silver birch, and bright ever when the emerald patches bear testimony to the industry of the farmer, winning his scanty harvests against heavy odds. The calling places are numerous, but often consist of some half a dozen houses of the usual weatherboard, ...

— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior

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