paper birch

Questions about paper birch

What does paper birch mean?

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

What is another word for paper birch?

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

paper 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.