black birch

1. 1.

   common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture

   Synonymssweet birchcherry birchBetula lenta

   Broaderbirch

   Part ofBetula
2. 2.

   birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark

   Synonymsriver birchred birchBetula nigra

   Broaderbirch

   Part ofBetula

Questions about black birch

What does black birch mean?

black birch means "common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black birch?

Close synonyms include sweet birch, cherry birch, Betula lenta, river birch, red birch. 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 black birch a common word?

black birch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.