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RED BIRCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
Synonyms:
Betula nigra; black birch; red birch; river birch
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("red birch" is a kind of...):
birch; birch tree (any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark)
Holonyms ("red birch" is a member of...):
Betula; genus Betula (a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches))