oregon alder

1. 1.

   large tree of Pacific coast of North America having hard red wood much used for furniture

   Synonymsred alderAlnus rubra

   Broaderalder

   Part ofAlnus

Questions about oregon alder

What does oregon alder mean?

oregon alder means "large tree of Pacific coast of North America having hard red wood much used for furniture".

What is another word for oregon alder?

Close synonyms include red alder, Alnus rubra. 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 oregon alder a common word?

oregon 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.