alder buckthorn

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   small tree common in Europe

   Synonymsalder dogwoodRhamnus frangula

   Broaderbuckthorn

Questions about alder buckthorn

What does alder buckthorn mean?

alder buckthorn means "small tree common in Europe".

What is another word for alder buckthorn?

Close synonyms include alder dogwood, Rhamnus frangula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alder buckthorn a common word?

alder buckthorn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.