单词 | birch tree |
释义 | birch tree (once / 13206 pages) n WORD FAMILY birch tree: birch trees USAGE EXAMPLESI cried, my voice rising through the birch trees, through that silent and never-ending moment. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) He pulled over next to a sweet birch tree, and looked at its pale green leaves, ringed with dry brown. New York Times(Sep 26, 2016) Once, when he was seven years old and his family lived near Milwaukee, a drunken hunter drove a snowmobile full-speed into an old birch tree. Carl Hiaasen, Hoot(2002) n any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark Syn|Hypo|Hyper 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 birchsmall 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 birchmedium-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, European white birch, common birch, silver birchEuropean birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches Betula pubescens, downy birch, white birchEuropean birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches Betula nigra, black birch, red birch, river birchbirch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark Betula lenta, black birch, cherry birch, sweet birchcommon 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 birchAlaskan birch with white to pale brown bark Betula fontinalis, Western birch, Western paper birch, mountain birch, swamp birch, water birchbirch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark American dwarf birch, Betula glandulosa, Newfoundland dwarf birchsmall shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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