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GREY BIRCH
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I. (noun)
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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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grey birch" is a kind of...):
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
Holonyms ("grey birch" is a member of...):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))