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Noun: paper birch  pey-pu(r) burch
  1. Small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
    "Native Americans traditionally made canoes from paper birch bark";
    - American white birch, paperbark birch, canoe birch, Betula cordifolia, Betula papyrifera

Derived forms: paper birches

Type of: birch, birch tree

Part of: Betula, genus Betula

Encyclopedia: Paper birch