AMERICAN GREY BIRCH

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Meaning:

Medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree

Synonyms:

American gray birch; American grey birch; Betula populifolia; gray birch; grey birch

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("American grey birch" is a kind of...):

birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)

Holonyms ("American grey birch" is a member of...):

Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))

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