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Definition of alders in English English dictionary
- plural of alder
- alnus
- Alder
- A topographic surname for someone who lived by alder trees
- black alders
- plural form of black alder
- common alders
- plural form of common alder
- alder
- any shrub or small tree of the genus alumnus, of the oak family
- alder
- {n} a common tree of several varieties
- Alder
- wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc
- Alder
- An English topographic surname for someone who lived by alder trees
- Alder
- north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood
- alder
- Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family
- alder
- {i} type of tree
- alder
- The wood is used by turners, etc
- alder
- In the U
- alder
- the bark by dyers and tanners
- alder
- Of all; used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all
- alder
- A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus
- alder
- An alder is a species of tree or shrub that grows especially in cool, damp places and loses its leaves in winter. Any of about 30 species of ornamental shrubs and trees in the genus Alnus, of the birch family, found throughout the Northern Hemisphere and western South America on cool, wet sites. Alders are distinguished from birches by their usually stalked winter buds and by cones that remain on the branches after the small, winged nutlets are released. Alders have scaly bark, oval leaves that fall without changing colour, and separate male and female flowers (catkins) borne on the same tree. Some familiar North American alders are the red alder (A. rubra or A. oregona); the white, or Sierra, alder (A. rhombifolia); and the speckled alder (A. rugosa). Alder wood is fine-textured and durable, even under water; it is useful for furniture, cabinetry, and lathe work and in charcoal manufacture and millwork. Alders' spreading root systems and tolerance of moist soils lend them to planting on stream banks for flood and erosion control
- alder
- north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc
- alder
- the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees
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Etymology
[ 'ol-d&r ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English alor; akin to Old High German elira alder, Latin alnus.Resimler
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