downy birch

1. 1.

   European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches

   Synonymswhite birchBetula pubescens

   Broaderbirch

   Part ofBetula

Questions about downy birch

What does downy birch mean?

downy birch means "European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches".

What is another word for downy birch?

Close synonyms include white birch, Betula pubescens. 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 downy birch a common word?

downy 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.