Wiktionary
n. A tree of the species ''Betula lenta'', with a dark bark resembling a cherry tree's and an aromatic bark and sap used for birch beer.
WordNet
n. common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture [syn: sweet birch, cherry birch, Betula lenta]
birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark [syn: river birch, red birch, Betula nigra]
Wikipedia
Black Birch may refer to:
- Betula lenta (also sweet birch, cherry birch, mahogany birch, and spice birch)
- Betula nigra (also river birch, and water birch)
- Black Birch Ridge outside of Blenheim on the South Island of New Zealand
- the Black Birch Astrometric Observatory at Black Birch Ridge
Usage examples of "black birch".
What I lost, once everything was stitched and repaired, was the strength to ride half-ton steeplechasers over the black birch.
There's a stand of black birch over there by The River, she thought, the bark can help prevent miscarriage, and here's some sweet rush, which can cause one.
All about her stone pines and black birch showed signs of the sudden freeze.
When the ten-strong field poured over the fence on the first of the race's two circuits, the earth quivered under the thudding hooves, the black birch crackled as the half-ton 'chasers crashed through the twigs, the air parted before the straining bunch risking life and limb off the ground at thirty miles an hour: the noise stunned the ears, the jockeys' voices cursed, the coloured shirts flashed by kaleidoscopically….
Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain -- inducing product of a rare black birch tree.
Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain inducing product of a rare black birch tree.
Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain-inducing product of a rare black birch tree.
I did not put a single morsel into my mouth for several days, except for a little black birch bark which I gnawed off a stick of wood.