alderwood

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A wood largely populated with alder trees.

   • In consequence, when the ground-level in spite of all does in time rise above the water-level, instead of an alderwood one encounters meadow associations belonging to the order Molinietalia.
2. 2

   The wood from an alder tree.

   • Fig. 12. Is a piece of Alder-wood the breadth whereof is about the bigness of the bristle of a Hog, to the naked Eye.
   • The said bishop Ofbaldiston cut and sold all the alder wood upon the demesne at Rose, with large quantities of oak and ash, to the value of many hundred pounds.
   • For nankeen, to the gall-liquor must be added a decoction of tea of alderwood, walnut, poplar, or mahogany; after which nitro-muriate of tin is to be added

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