alder tree

Questions about alder tree

What does alder tree mean?

alder tree means "north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant".

What is another word for alder tree?

Close synonyms include alder. 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 tree a common word?

alder tree 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.