american white birch

Questions about american white birch

What does american white birch mean?

american white birch means "small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes".

What is another word for american white birch?

Close synonyms include paper birch, paperbark birch, canoe birch, Betula cordifolia, Betula papyrifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is american white birch a common word?

american white birch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.