English > Betula: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches). |
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| Synonym | genus Betula |
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| Member of | Betulaceae, family Betulaceae, birch family | monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera ... / genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis) |
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| Members | American white birch, paper birch, paperbark birch, canoe birch, Betula cordifolia, Betula papyrifera | small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes |
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| Newfoundland dwarf birch, American dwarf birch, Betula glandulosa | small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland |
| Yukon white birch, Betula neoalaskana | Alaskan birch with white to pale brown bark |
| birch, birch tree | Any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark |
| black birch, river birch, red birch, Betula nigra | birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark |
| downy birch, white birch, Betula pubescens | European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches |
| grey birch, gray birch, American grey birch, American gray birch, Betula populifolia | medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood |
| silver birch, common birch, European white birch, Betula pendula | European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches |
| swamp birch, water birch, mountain birch, Western paper birch, Western birch, Betula fontinalis | birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark |
| sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch, Betula lenta | common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture |
| yellow birch, Betula alleghaniensis, Betula leutea | Tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark |
| Broader | hamamelid dicot genus | genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
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| Spanish | betula, genus betula |
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| Catalan | betula, Betula, genus betula |
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