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COMMON ALDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Medium-sized tree with brown-black bark and woody fruiting catkins; leaves are hairy beneath
Synonyms:
Alnus glutinosa; Alnus vulgaris; common alder; European black alder
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("common alder" is a kind of...):
alder; alder tree (north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant)
Holonyms ("common alder" is a member of...):
Alnus; genus Alnus (alders)
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