canoe birch


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canoe birch

n.
See paper birch.
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Noun1.canoe birch - small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoescanoe birch - small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
American white birch, Betula cordifolia, Betula papyrifera, paper birch, paperbark birch
Betula, genus Betula - a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)
birch tree, birch - any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
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