WordNet
witch alder
n. any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains [syn: fothergilla]
Usage examples of "witch alder".
Ive come from the east in search of my teacher, the witch Alder Owl, who set out last autumn to find the prince.
Willow and witch alder, stunted birch and poplar had found roothold, clothed it, until only their crowding outposts, thrusting forward in a wavering semicircle, held back seemingly by the blue hordes, showed where it melted into the meadows.