noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pine/beech/birch etc forest
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A narrow path led through the pine forest.
silver birch
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
silver
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The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan.
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I rubbed a patch clear and looked out hopefully; saw stone walls, the vague shapes of silver birch and larch.
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Conifers had suffered the most damage, while oak and silver birch were also badly affected.
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The under storey was planted with hornbeam, hazel, silver birch and holly.
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The trees along here include silver birch , yew and holly.
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It continues as an usual inland resort set in woodland of silver birches , rhododendrons and conifers.
white
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These barn sills enclose thick white birch , ash, and maple trees.
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The white birch , beech, and red and sugar maples were not far behind in the race for light.
■ NOUN
tree
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An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.
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Last week, the tree swallow pair abandoned its nest box in the old birch tree in front of my window.
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Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree .
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The river birch trees spread their silvery shade over the slate walkways.
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The birch tree outside is only just beginning to look green, but at least it is, I suppose.
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I try to hold on to a slender low branch of a birch tree .
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One birch tree lay newly fallen, clean with silver bark.
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It is a fairly sparse forest mostly of birch trees on a light, sandy soil.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
weeping willow/birch etc
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When she reached the bushes, Geoffrey was spreading his jacket on the grass between the stream and a weeping willow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All I remember is the wrenching loss as l watched the last birch disappear. l have relived it again and again.
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An imperceptible breeze forced the leaves of a regiment of birch trees into anxious quaking.
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Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.
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Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead, as the shoreline curved to meet me.
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I walked through hardwood forest of very thick sugar maples and yellow birches.
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I wish to heavens I was still allowed to use the birch and belt as I did in the good old days!
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The birch leaves were delicately pale, almost lemon-colored.
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These barn sills enclose thick white birch , ash, and maple trees.