white birch

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsdowny birchBetula pubescens

   Broaderbirch

   Part ofBetula

Questions about white birch

What does white birch mean?

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

What is another word for white birch?

Close synonyms include downy 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 white birch a common word?

white 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.