WordNet
n. north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood [syn: alder]
Usage examples of "alder tree".
He leaned back against an old Alder tree as the twins finished laying out their bedrolls.
Further into the trees, where the woods were already darkening toward night, she saw an alder tree with more of those deep claw-marks slashed into it.
He shivered with cold, eventually located a large alder tree growing out of a hummock of ground above the level of the marsh.
If you cannot sail it, bury your egg and coconut shell beneath a willow or alder tree and water the soil with Moon water (water that has been collected when the full moon shines on it).
By the time she found it, pressed against the back side of an alder tree, Kelemvor and Adon had begun their search for her.
This one had been rubbed with charcoal along the center, recording the smooth, erratically-fissured pattern of the bark of a white alder tree-and, in negative image, the familiar serpentine characters of ancient elven glyphs.
Father Roche led the donkey off to the side and tied it to an alder tree.
Graham stood by the large arched window that looked out on to the alder tree and the street.
She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night.