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alder

Any of a group of trees or shrubs belonging to the birch family, found mainly in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere and characterized by toothed leaves and catkins. (Genus Alnus, family Betulaceae.)

Sitka alder (Alnus sinuata) and red alder (A. rubra) are common to western North America.
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Behind Krak there came into view in the shade of the alder tree the shapely figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
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Round her cave there was a thick wood of alder, poplar, and sweet smelling cypress trees, wherein all kinds of great birds had built their nests--owls, hawks, and chattering sea-crows that occupy their business in the waters.
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Then I come back to what I thought before; and the more so as last evening at sunset, whilst I was arranging the border where I am to plant your bulb, I saw a shadow gliding between the alder trees and the aspens.
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