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Definition of Downy birch
1. Noun. European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches.
Group relationships: Betula, Genus Betula
Generic synonyms: Birch, Birch Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Downy Birch
Literary usage of Downy birch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Air Quality Criteria for Oxides of Nitrogenby Dennis J. Kotchmar by Dennis J. Kotchmar (1996)
"0.1 104 h/week, 22 weeks No significant effect on stem height, leaf area, or mass
of shoot in second-year cuttings of black poplar, downy birch, or common ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... the downy birch. Branches erect, covered all over with very close down ; leaves
heart-shaped, ovate, taper-pointed, doubly and sharply serrated, ..."
3. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"... the Common Birch, Betula alba L., subdivided by Ehrhart into (1) the warty
Birch, B. verrucosa, and (2) the downy Birch, B. pubescent. ..."
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