betula

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgenus Betula

   Broaderhamamelid dicot genus

   Part ofBetulaceae

Other forms of betula

plural

betulas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about betula

What does betula mean?

betula means "a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)".

How many syllables are in betula?

betula has 3 syllables: be-tu-la. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for betula?

Close synonyms include genus Betula. 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 betula a common word?

betula 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.