Definition of betula Betula
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| betula - a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches) | ||
| genus Betula | ||
| hamamelid dicot genus genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins | ||
| betulaceae, birch family, family betulaceae monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis) | ||
| birch tree, birch a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment; "my father never spared the birch" | ||
| betula alleghaniensis, betula leutea, yellow birch tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark | ||
| american white birch, betula cordifolia, betula papyrifera, canoe birch, paper birch, paperbark birch small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes | ||
| american gray birch, american grey birch, betula populifolia, gray birch, grey birch medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree | ||
| betula pendula, common birch, european white birch, silver birch European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches | ||
| betula pubescens, downy birch, white birch European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches | ||
| betula nigra, red birch, river birch, black birch birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark | ||
| betula lenta, cherry birch, sweet birch, black birch common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture | ||
| betula neoalaskana, yukon white birch Alaskan birch with white to pale brown bark | ||
| betula fontinalis, mountain birch, swamp birch, water birch, western birch, western paper birch birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark | ||
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