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birch tree

n. any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark [syn: birch]

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Birch Tree, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 634
Housing Units (2000): 323
Land area (2000): 1.326248 sq. miles (3.434967 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.326248 sq. miles (3.434967 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05734
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.993041 N, 91.493663 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65438
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Birch Tree, MO
Birch Tree

Usage examples of "birch tree".

She stood like a white birch tree shaken and mishandled by the wind, and accepted it with the like indifference.

He saw Ayla hacking tell straight birch tree from the center of the grove of Itrees venting her anger in the process.

At his left was a sturdy fir in whose needled arms a broken birch tree lay withering.

No less majestic than the moon itself, a birch tree rose to mark the young man's grave.

Sometimes Pierre, struck by the meaning of his words, would ask him to repeat them, but Platon could never recall what he had said a moment before, just as he never could repeat to Pierre the words of his favorite song: native and birch tree and my heart is sick occurred in it, but when spoken and not sung, no meaning could be got out of it.

I was standing in the dark of the woods, leaning against a birch tree and looking across the river, up toward the castle.

She stood slim and graceful as a tall young birch tree, and she looked straight at me, and then she smiled.

A single birch tree, dwarfed to a shrub, grew on the spit of dirt.

Valeri ran down the lawn toward the bench that overlooked the large birch tree where he always sat with his daughter.

With incredulity Shef saw the towering bulk of Echegorgun step out from behind a dwarf birch tree.

As the first axeman struck at a birch tree, Shef noticed a bundle wedged in its branches.