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Examples of black birch in a Sentence
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Craft it from black birch saplings or the limbs of other visually unique trees to give it extra appeal.
—Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
That study estimated that the woolly adelgid could potentially lead to a net release of 4.5 tons of carbon per roughly two and a half acres of hemlock forest replaced by black birch.
—Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
But that study and others predict that hardwood tree species, and an opportunistic tree called black birch in particular, will eventually replace the dead and dying hemlock—a trend researchers have already noticed in Northeast woods.
—Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
Interestingly, North American trees such as red maple and black birch are more cautious and conservative than European and East Asian trees.
—Richard B. Primack, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2021
Volunteers have been cutting down larger maples and black birch that eventually would have crowded out the cedars.
—Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2018
Smaller maples and black birch also have been removed and smaller cedars from the preserve planted in their place.
—Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Feb. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1674, in the meaning defined above
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“Black birch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20birch. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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