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Green alder

noun

North American shrub with light green leaves and winged nuts. Synonyms: Alnus crispa, Alnus veridis crispa.

Shrub of mountainous areas of Europe. Synonym: Alnus veridis.

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... out through the gates to the spring in the very teeth of death and brought back water in their wooden dinner-buckets. Or, when the boys would become men with contests of running and pitching quoits and wrestling, the girls would play wives and have a quilting, in a house of green alder-bushes, or be capped and wrinkled grandmothers sitting beside imaginary ...

— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen

Words linked to "Green alder" : Alnus veridis, Alnus, Alnus crispa, alder, alder tree, Alnus veridis crispa, genus Alnus