Definition of Silver birch

1. Noun. European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches.

Exact synonyms: Betula Pendula, Common Birch, European White Birch
Group relationships: Betula, Genus Betula
Generic synonyms: Birch, Birch Tree

Definition of Silver birch

1. Noun. A European deciduous tree, ''Betula pendula'', characterised by white peeling bark and drooping branches. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Birch

silver-plate
silver-plated
silver-tin alloy
silver-tip
silver-tongue
silver-tongued
silver-worker
silver age
silver ages
silver ash
silver ball
silver beech
silver bell
silver berries
silver berry
silver birch (current term)
silver birches
silver bream
silver breams
silver bromide
silver bullet
silver bullets
silver cell
silver certificate
silver chloride
silver compounds
silver cone
silver cord
silver dollar
silver dollars

Literary usage of Silver birch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Deirdre Wed and Other Poems by Herbert Trench (1901)
"ODE ON A silver birch in St fames' Park AT USE, I will show thee, on a grassy mound Moving with tufted shadows, albeit bare Herself, for yet young April ..."

2. The Land of the North Wind, Or, Travels Among the Laplanders and the by Edward Rae (1875)
"... in Silver-birch Forests—Cross the Frontier of Russian Lapland by the Light of the Midnight Sun—Watershed of ..."

3. The Land of the North Wind: Or, Travels Among the Laplanders and the Samoyedes by Edward Rae (1875)
"... in Silver-birch Forests—Cross the Frontier of Russian Lapland by the Light of the Midnight Sun—Watershed of Rivers Alten and Muonio—Midnight ..."

4. By Neva's Waters: Being an Episode in the Secret History of Alexander the by John R. Carling (1907)
"... CHAPTER III THE INN OF THE silver birch A WINTER night, frosty and still. The northern stars, set in a sky of steely blue, twinkled over a plain ..."

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