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Meanings of silver birch in English

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

Usage of silver birch in English
1
A silver birch was Iolanthe, a maple Portia, an oak Mabel Vane.
The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
2
It was very large, for a silver birch-tree touched its shoulder.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
3
She sat leaning against the crisp trunk of a silver birch.
Through stained glass / A Novel
4
The first tree he came to was a slim silver birch.
How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell
5
And to a thorn a shred of silver birch-bark clung impaled.
The Hidden Children
6
Birds nest in an orange mailbox nailed to a silver birch.
Number9Dream
7
Many were lined with birch bark, with borders of beautiful ash and silver birch.
A Little Girl in Old Detroit
8
He was alone, lying beneath a silver birch, his head among the star flowers.
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
9
Butler undipped himself from the Moonbelt, leaning against the trunk of a silver birch.
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
10
A silver birch tree grew close beside the dead pine.
Odd and the frost giants
11
They had been born in that brick cottage with the silver birch before the door.
Burned Bridges
12
You remember the glow of evening sunlight between the red pine and the silver birch?
In the Year of Jubilee
13
She was standing very lancelike and straight by the slender bole of a silver birch.
Destiny
14
The boundary is by that clump of silver birch.
Red Pottage
15
Always within one of each pair of moccasins is sewed a strip of silver birch.
The Hidden Children
16
It was here, opposite that clump of silver birch.
Red Pottage
This collocation consists of:
Silver birch through the time
Silver birch across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common