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Birch tree   /bərtʃ tri/   Listen
Birch tree

noun
1.
Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark.  Synonym: birch.






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"Birch tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... there's plenty of time. Belcher has got his eye on him, and will stay by him till we come." We travelled quietly, and as silently as we could for near half a mile, and as we rounded a low but steep point of a hill, there sat bruin, some twelve rods from us, in the forks of a great birch tree, forty feet from the ground, looking down in calm dignity upon the dogs that were baying and leaping up against the tree beneath him. Did anybody ever notice what a meek, innocent look a bear has when in repose? How hypocritically he leers ...
— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond

... from the flock and slaughtered it. The witch made pease-soup of it, and set it before the daughter. But the girl remembered her mother's warning. She did not touch the soup, but she carried the bones to the edge of the field and buried them there; and there sprang up on the spot a birch tree—a very lovely birch tree. ...
— The Red Fairy Book • Various

... Beneath a white birch tree growing in my garden I noticed, yesterday evening, a very wet place on the gravel path, the water of which was obviously being fed by the cut extremity of a branch of the birch about an inch in diameter and ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various

... honest birch tree fairer, which is like a village woman weeping for her son, or a widow for her husband, who wrings her hands and lets fall over her shoulders to the ground the stream of her loose tresses? Mute with grief, how eloquently she sobs with her form! ...
— Pan Tadeusz • Adam Mickiewicz

... she doubted his loyalty, his devotion? From some far off ancestor, her woman's dower of pride and silence suddenly asserted itself in Rosemary. When he wanted her, he would find her. If he missed her signal, fluttering from the birch tree in the Spring wind, he could write and say so. Meanwhile she would not seek him, though her heart should break from loneliness ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed

... answered Harry, stretching himself on a bed of dry leaves, which his companion had arranged for him in the shade of a birch tree. ...
— Michael Strogoff - or, The Courier of the Czar • Jules Verne

... canoe paddle, but showing by their wear that they were used as shovels. Although they appeared solid while in water, yet, on drying, they shrunk up, and were with difficulty preserved. A birch tree, two feet in diameter, was observed growing directly over one of these shovels. No marks of metallic tools were observed anywhere about this ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... passed. Cautiously above the top of the hill appeared a girl's head. She saw what she was looking for: the dreaded man was sitting on the stump of a felled birch tree, gazing down the valley, his cheeks resting on his hands. Daphne, stealing behind a giant ilex, studied him. He wore something that looked like a golf suit of brownish shade; a soft felt hat drooped over his face. The girl peered out from her hiding place cautiously, ...
— Daphne, An Autumn Pastoral • Margaret Pollock Sherwood

... to an old birch tree and tore off great pieces of bark, then gathering some half-dried grasses, began to fashion a sort of pail, bending up the edges to make the bottom. She was so quick and deft, it was a pleasure to watch her. Then she ...
— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas

... head; "you are mine, mine! I'll kill any other man that touches you!" Barney got up, and his face was flaming; he started off with a great stride, and then he stopped short and flung an arm around the slender trunk of a white-birch tree, and pulled it against him and leaned against it as if it were Charlotte, and laid his cheek on the cool white bark and sobbed again like a girl. "Oh, Charlotte, Charlotte!" he moaned, and his voice was drowned out by the manifold rustling of the ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn? Where may the grave of that good man be?— By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn, Under the twigs of a young birch tree! The oak that in summer was sweet to hear, And rustled its leaves in the fall of the year, And whistled and roar'd in the winter alone, Is gone,—and the birch in its stead is grown.— The Knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;— His ...
— Poems of Coleridge • Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons



Words linked to "Birch tree" :   Newfoundland dwarf birch, white birch, paper birch, Western birch, cherry birch, sweet birch, canoe birch, river birch, downy birch, Betula leutea, Betula cordifolia, American gray birch, Betula neoalaskana, common birch, Betula alleghaniensis, Betula nigra, yellow birch, Betula populifolia, Betula papyrifera, birch, black birch, grey birch, paperbark birch, genus Betula, swamp birch, Western paper birch, American white birch, gray birch, European white birch, Yukon white birch, red birch, Betula glandulosa, water birch, Betula pubescens, American grey birch, Betula lenta, mountain birch, American dwarf birch, Betula pendula, Betula, silver birch, tree, Betula fontinalis



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