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wire birch 
a small species of birch, Betula populifolia, native to the Maritimes, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.
See also: swamp birch gray birch
- 1917 (1920) Betula Populifolia, Marsh. Common names: White birch, grey birch, wire birch, poplar leaved birch.
- 1946 Henry loaded his musket with care and led the way to the tip of the bog barren. He cut a strip of bark from a "wire birch" and rolled it cornerwise into a horn. . . .
- 1956 Then came the long reach of scrub woods, wire birch and poplar mostly, with blossoming clumps of Indian pear, like patches of snow on the slopes. . . .
- 1917 (1920) Betula Populifolia, Marsh. Common names: White birch, grey birch, wire birch, poplar leaved birch.