1. Common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
   "The sweet birch's wintergreen-scented bark was once used for flavouring";
   - cherry birch, black birch, Betula lenta

Derived forms: sweet birches

Type of: birch, birch tree

Part of: Betula, genus Betula

Encyclopedia: Sweet birch