Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
alaternus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An ornamental evergreen shrub (
Rhamnus alaternus ) belonging to the buckthorns.
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- noun botany An
ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to thebuckthorns .
Etymologies
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Latin ala ("wing") + terni ("three each").
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