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CANOE BIRCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
Synonyms:
American white birch; Betula cordifolia; Betula papyrifera; canoe birch; paper birch; paperbark birch
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("canoe birch" is a kind of...):
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
Holonyms ("canoe birch" is a member of...):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))