white birch

noun

the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
paper birch.

Origin of white birch

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby white birch

white bacon, white bass, white bear, white bear lake, white belt, white birch, white blood cell, white blood cells, white book, white bread, white bryony

Example sentences from the Web for white birch

  • Besides the farm work we had to look after the hardwood flooring mill that summer and the white-birch dowel mill.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's |Charles Asbury Stephens

  • Then she looked up and smiled the blond way a white-birch tree smiles in the sunshine.

    The Sick-a-Bed Lady |Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  • White-birch spools for thread, Christmas-trees, and tamarack and spruce-gum are found in great abundance.

    Comic History of the United States |Bill Nye

British Dictionary definitions for white birch

white birch

noun

any of several birch trees with white bark, such as the silver birch of Europe and the paper birch of North America See also birch (def. 1)