red alder

Questions about red alder

What is another word for red alder?

It depends which red alder you mean. In the sense “large tree of Pacific coast of North America having hard red wood much used for furniture”, the synonyms are Oregon alder, Alnus rubra. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of red alder?

WordNet records no antonym for red alder. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for red alder come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of red alder

• Full entry for red alderAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for red alderWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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