Definition of yellow birch
: a large birch (Betula alleghaniensis synonym B. lutea) of chiefly eastern North America with thin lustrous gray or yellow bark forming plates with ragged edges in older trees
also
: its strong hard dark brown to reddish-brown wood
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The first known use of yellow birch was in 1774
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