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‖ alaternus Bot.|æləˈtɜːnəs|
Also alatern.
[f. L. āla wing + ternus three.]
An evergreen shrub (Rhamnus Alaternus) belonging to the genus Rhamnaceæ or Buckthorns.
1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts (1673) 189 They love Tamerisk..and a tree called Alaternus, which never beareth fruit but only leaves. 1711Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 393 Great broad Alatern. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. 207 The Alaternus, formerly so shorn and beclipped in hedges. |