单词 | wire birch |
释义 | > as lemmaswire birch wire birch n. North American a small birch of eastern North America, Betula populifolia, with light-coloured bark. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] bircha700 birch-tree1530 weeping birch1606 Our Lady's tree1608 black birch1674 sugar-birch1751 white birch1766 red birch1774 yellow birch1774 paper birch1791 canoe birch1810 mountain mahogany1810 old field birch1810 mahogany birch1813 towai1845 river birch1846 kamahi1867 silver birch1884 wire birch1899 1899 R. R. McLeod In Acadian Land 91 Slender wire-birches, clad in gray and green, stand guard over those woodland gems [sc. lady's-slippers], that the sun shall not smite them. 1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night 12 Then came the long reach of scrub woods, wire birch and poplar mostly, with blossoming clumps of Indian pear, like patches of snow on the slopes. 1974 J. Dowell Look-off Bear p. viii Beyond our grove of pines there were mixed growths of wire-birch, swamp willow, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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