Definition of Alnus

1. Noun. Alders.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Alnus

Almain
Almains
Almaty
Almayne
Almeida's disease
Almen's test for blood
Almighty
Almira
Almiros
Almoravid
Almyros
Alnair
Alnico
Alnilam
Alnitak
Alnus
Alnus crispa
Alnus glutinosa
Alnus incana
Alnus maritima
Alnus rhombifolia
Alnus rubra
Alnus rugosa
Alnus serrulata
Alnus veridis
Alnus veridis crispa
Alnus vulgaris
Alocasia macrorrhiza
Aloe ferox
Aloe vera

Literary usage of Alnus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"alnus incana Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 335. 1805. A shrub, or rarely a small tree, 8°-40° high, ... Be tula alnus and var. glutinosa L. Sp. PI. 983. 1753. ..."

2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"alnus serrulata Aiton.—Black Alder, Tag Alder, Description. ... Other species of alnus, both indigenous and exotic, possess similar properties. ..."

3. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1801)
"alnus. Rail Syn. 442. Ger. «и. 1477. The trunk is of a middling height and thickness, rugged, crooked, and of slow growth. The wood is reddish, ..."

4. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"alnus. Pistillate catkins solitary, cylindrical and erect in fruit, ... alnus L. ALDER. Peduncles branched or forked, bearing a cluster of few to several ..."

5. The Forester =: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and by James Brown (1882)
"The only species to which we think it necessary to refer here is the alnus glutinosa, or common alder, which is sometimes found a useful tree for planting ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"On the Structure of the Root-nodules q/'alnus glutinosa. %TW WOODHEAD.. Longitudinal sections show that the nodule is traversed by a central strand of short ..."

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