white alder

Questions about white alder

What does white alder mean?

white alder means "tree of western United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for white alder?

Close synonyms include mountain alder, Alnus rhombifolia, sweet pepperbush, pepper bush, summer sweet. 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 white alder a common word?

white alder is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.