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"Alder" Definition

noun

Any of various deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Alnus, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having alternate simple toothed leaves and tiny fruits in woody, conelike catkins.
The wood of these plants, used in carvings and for making furniture and cabinets.
Any of a genus () of toothed-leaved trees or shrubs of the birch family that have catkins which become woody, that typically grow in cool moist ground, and that have wood used especially in turnery.
Its wood.

biographical name

Kurt 1902–1958 Ger. chem.

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