betula papyrifera

Questions about betula papyrifera

What does betula papyrifera mean?

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

What is another word for betula papyrifera?

Close synonyms include American white birch, paper birch, paperbark birch, canoe birch, Betula cordifolia. 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 papyrifera a common word?

betula papyrifera 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.