1. common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture; [syn: sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch, Betula lenta]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sweet birch
n 1: common birch of the eastern United States having spicy
brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used
for furniture [syn: sweet birch, cherry birch, black
birch, Betula lenta]