alder

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Although nobody had anything negative to say about McCormack, many said they didn't know who their alder was and didn't know how to contact that person, Paca recalled of his experience canvassing for Obama.

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  1. noun Any of various deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Alnus, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having alternate simple toothed leaves and tiny fruits in woody, conelike catkins.
  2. noun The wood of these plants, used in carvings and for making furniture and cabinets.

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  • What they also have in common is that they are too far from surviving fragments of coastal forest for native successors to the alder -- hemlock, spruce, cedar, cottonwood or fir -- to reseed naturally. —  Tyee - Home
  • But, the three-term alder added, she can't imagine how tough it must be for those who have families and work a full-time day job. —  Madison.com - top
  • Although nobody had anything negative to say about McCormack, many said they didn't know who their alder was and didn't know how to contact that person, Paca recalled of his experience canvassing for Obama. —  New Haven Independent
  • Interestingly, every paragraph began with "I" as if the race for alder is about you, not the voters. —  New Haven Independent
  • For Halloween, Foglia calls our attention to the foliage of another "witch," the witch-alder or fothergilla (Fothergilla gardenii). —  The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS
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  1. Middle English, from Old English alor.

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  1. English dial, aller, also owler; from Middle English alder, aldyr, aldir, also aller, ellir, olr, etc., the d being inserted as in alder for aller, genitive plural of all (see alder); from Anglo-Saxon alr, alor, aler = Dutch els = Low German eller = Old High German elira, erila, erla, Middle High German erle, German erle, dial. eller, else, = Icelandic ölr, elrir, masculine, elri, neuter, = Swedish al, dial. alder, ålder, = Norwegian older, also or, elle, = Danish el, plural elle, = Gothic (Moesogothic) *aliza, *aluza (later Spanish aliso, alder) = Latin alnus, orig. *alsnus (later F. aune, alder, and perhaps Spanish Portuguese alamo, poplar: see alamo), = Old Bulgarian jelĭha, Bulgarian jelha = Servian jelsha = Bohemian jelshe, olshe = Polish olcha, olcza = Russian olîkha, volîkha, dial, elkha, elokha, = Lithuanian Lettish elksnis, alksnis, alder.
 

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