common birch

1. 1.

   European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches

   Synonymssilver birchEuropean white birchBetula pendula

   Broaderbirch

   Part ofBetula

Questions about common birch

What does common birch mean?

common birch means "European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches".

What is another word for common birch?

Close synonyms include silver birch, European white birch, Betula pendula. 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 common birch a common word?

common 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.