- Furniture-making wood - 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). - The wood or timber of the birch.
- The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a
tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that
form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.