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Meanings of downy birch in English

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

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        Examples for "white birch"
        Examples for "white birch"
        1
        Have you seen the white birch in the spring, in the Spring?
        Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual / Issued for the ...
        2
        We had now to cut the bark from the white birch trees.
        Snow Shoes and Canoes / Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in th...
        3
        All the rainbow qualities of web were spun on white birch trees.
        The Cheerful Cricket and Others
        4
        That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine.
        Anne of Avonlea
        5
        The white birch shivered from head to foot, and broke into lamentable shrieks.
        The Blue Moon