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WHITE ALDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers
Synonyms:
Clethra alnifolia; pepper bush; summer sweet; sweet pepperbush; white alder
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("white alder" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tree of western United States
Synonyms:
Alnus rhombifolia; mountain alder; white alder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("white 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 ("white alder" is a member of...):
Alnus; genus Alnus (alders)
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