mountain birch

Questions about mountain birch

What does mountain birch mean?

mountain birch means "birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark".

What is another word for mountain birch?

Close synonyms include swamp birch, water birch, Western paper birch, Western birch, Betula fontinalis. 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 mountain birch a common word?

mountain 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.