western birch

Questions about western birch

What does western birch mean?

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

What is another word for western birch?

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

western 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.