SWEET BIRCH

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Meaning:

Common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture

Synonyms:

Betula lenta; black birch; cherry birch; sweet birch

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sweet birch" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("sweet birch" is a member of...):

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