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yellow birch

noun

Definition of YELLOW BIRCH

:  a large birch (Betula alleghaniensis syn. B. lutea) of chiefly eastern North America with thin lustrous gray or yellow bark forming plates with ragged edges in older trees; also :  its strong hard dark brown to reddish-brown wood
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First Known Use of YELLOW BIRCH

1787

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