PAPERBARK BIRCH

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Meaning:

Small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes

Synonyms:

American white birch; Betula cordifolia; Betula papyrifera; canoe birch; paper birch; paperbark birch

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

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

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