COMMON BIRCH

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Meaning:

European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches

Synonyms:

Betula pendula; common birch; European white birch; silver birch

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common birch" is a kind of...):

birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)

Holonyms ("common birch" is a member of...):

Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))

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