Wiktionary
n. A species of birch native to North America, (taxlink Betula alleghaniensis species noshow=1)
WordNet
n. tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or gray bark [syn: Betula alleghaniensis, Betula leutea]
Usage examples of "yellow birch".
That morning as I had driven the country road in my old Mustang convertible with the top down, under the pleached arbor of seared red sumac and blared yellow birch, acorns falling amidst the squashed squirrels, I felt angry that I couldn't be out playing in this day so full of chilled hope and possibility but had to be locked up with 350 lunatics.
A yellow birch which had stood in that spot for at least thirty years despite anything wind or water could do obligingly disintegrated to make room for the globe.
The dark green spruce and yellow birch stood around in their dripping thousands and the paper debris from the day before lay soggily scattered across the wet tarmac.
I was gladdened in my heart to see that a yellow birch had fallen across his picnic table and smashed it in two.
He hauled the men away from the side and left them near the yellow birch as a reminder to approaching tribesmen.
But no weather interfered fatally with my walks, or rather my going abroad, for I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Clef was now more accustomed to roughing it, and this was a hugely spreading yellow birch whose central nexus was almost like a house.
There was quite a difference between soft, straight pine and hard, curved yellow birch!
The measured ring of steel striking hardwood led him past a grossly twisted yellow birch and into a subforest of tall beech trees.
He took off his great cloak and showed his own massive, scarred torso, and his neck so laced with gristle that it resembled the trunk of an aged yellow birch.