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white birch†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1a
a species of birch, Betula papyrifera, found in many parts of Canada.
Quotations
1793
The trees are spruce, red-pine, cypress, poplar, white birch. . . .
1863
One woman was stripping a large white birch of its bark with a sharp knife. . . .
1966
The white birch is a lady of the forest . . . always dignified and serene.
1b
the heavy, straight-grained wood of this tree.
Quotations
1774
This town . . . affords great store of fine timber . . . birch, white yellow and black. . . .
1908
The principal kinds of timber are spruce, balsam, fir, white birch, cypress and pine
2
a small species of birch, Betula populifolia, native to the Maritimes, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.
See: wire birch
Quotations
1853
[The] "white birch" (B. populifolia) [is] a worthless tree of some twenty feet in height, and less than six inches in diameter. The bark of this species is useless. . . .
1956
Wire Birch [is also called] white birch. . . .