Quick links
wire birch
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.
a small species of birch, Betula populifolia, native to the Maritimes, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.
Quotations
1917
Betula Populifolia, Marsh. Common names: White birch, grey birch, wire birch, poplar leaved birch.
1946
Henry loaded his musket with care and led the way to the tip of the bog barren. He cut a strip of bark from a "wire birch" and rolled it cornerwise into a horn. . . .
1956
Then came the long reach of scrub woods, wire birch and poplar mostly, with blossoming clumps of Indian pear, like patches of snow on the slopes. . . .