red birch

noun

1

: river birch sense 1

2

: the heartwood lumber of the yellow birch (Betula lutea) and of the sweet birch (Betula lenta)

3

a

: a valuable New Zealand timber tree (Nothofagus fusca)

called also clinker beech, red beech

b

: the hard wood of this tree

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