North temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant.
Spanish
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The bittern booms in the thickets of grey willow and wet-shot alder.
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Among the arboreal productions the alder and birch were the most numerous.
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I am becoming poetical; let us think how to tie an alder-fly.
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The path to the house turned sharply around a clump of alder.
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Every pile of driftwood, every alder bush became alive with sinister possibilities.
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Around the cave A luscious forest flourished: alder, poplar, And scented cypress.
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The alder is readily propagated by seeds, but throws up root-suckers abundantly.
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To draw the feathered tribe, I planted alder, wild cherry, and grape-vines.
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This untouched forest is dominated by oak, lime, bog alder and hornbeam.
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At wide intervals arose some lonely alder bushes, thick banked with clematis.
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Birch, alder, ash, girt it round and made pleasant summer bowers everywhere.
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For a snack she eats branches of maple, mulberry, alder, or grape.
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Jim dragged him to a more substantial shelter, a thicket of alder.
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Part of his walls were mallow, part alder, thorn, willow, and dogwood.
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Ah, yes, an alder branch, with a white, cottony substance on it.
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We have a small gathering place behind the alder grove to your left.
