water birch

Questions about water birch

What does water birch mean?

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

What is another word for water birch?

Close synonyms include swamp birch, mountain 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 water birch a common word?

water 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.