water birch

Questions about water birch

What is another word for water birch?

It depends which water birch you mean. In the sense “birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark”, the synonyms are swamp birch, mountain birch, Western paper birch, Western birch, Betula fontinalis. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of water birch?

WordNet records no antonym for water birch. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for water birch come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of water birch

• Full entry for water birchAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for water birchWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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