black alder

American  

noun

1. Also called winterberry. a holly, Ilex verticillata, of eastern and midwestern North America, bearing red fruit that remains through early winter.

2. a European alder, Alnus glutinosa, having a dark-gray bark and sticky foliage.

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Etymology

Origin of black alder

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

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Example Sentences

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black alder

Winter floods are also becoming more frequent, with less flooding in spring, causing large areas of floodplain meadows, marshes, old lakes, wet oak and black alder forests to dry out.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2020

The piles of the Rialto in Venice and along the canals of Amsterdam and other Dutch cities are of black alder.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

Bushes of black alder, with a few poplars and twining shrubs, are scattered over the beaver meadows; some of which have high stony banks; and little islands of trees.

From Lady Mary and her Nurse by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

The stem of the black alder arrives at a great size.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

Intermixed is the white cedar, or arbor-vitæ, and some trees of black alder, two or three feet thick, and sixty or seventy in height.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

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