mountain alder

Questions about mountain alder

What does mountain alder mean?

mountain alder means "small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mountain alder?

Close synonyms include mountain maple, Acer spicatum, white alder, Alnus rhombifolia. 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 mountain alder a common word?

mountain alder 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.