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单词 white alder
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white alder


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Noun1.White alder - tree of western United Stateswhite alder - tree of western United States Alnus rhombifolia, mountain alderAlnus, genus Alnus - aldersalder tree, alder - north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant
2.White alder - shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowerswhite alder - shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowersClethra alnifolia, pepper bush, summer sweet, sweet pepperbushbush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

white alder


white alder,

deciduous shrub or small tree (Clethra alnifolia) native to the Appalachians, named for the resemblance of its leaves to those of the unrelated true alders. It is cultivated as an ornamental for the fragrant white or pinkish blossoms. Similar in appearance and also cultivated are the sweet pepper bush, or summer sweet (C. acuminata), of a somewhat wider range, and a Japanese species (C. barbinersis), whose young leaves are eaten with rice by peasants in its native localities. Most other Clethra species are of tropical America. They are good honey plants. White alder is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Ericales, family Clethraceae.

white alder


  • noun

Synonyms for white alder

noun tree of western United States

Synonyms

  • Alnus rhombifolia
  • mountain alder

Related Words

  • Alnus
  • genus Alnus
  • alder tree
  • alder

noun shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers

Synonyms

  • Clethra alnifolia
  • pepper bush
  • summer sweet
  • sweet pepperbush

Related Words

  • bush
  • shrub
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