- Furniture-making wood - Slender tree - Tree, silver ... - Type of bear - Type of tree - Whipping stick - A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula;
as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and
lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch
(B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch
(B. lenta).
- A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R.
Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant,
papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In
England it is called acacia.