Meaning

A wood largely populated with alder trees..

Definitions by Sense

1. A wood largely populated with alder trees.
2. The wood from an alder tree.

Example Sentences

Geltsdale Forsest is an extensive tract of mountain, forming the south-east portion of Castle Carrock parish, and is a royal forest leased by the Earl of Carlisle. Part of it abounds in birch and alderwoods, and gives rise to the river Gelt, which flows northwards.

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.

Not all stand types have an alderwood equivalent. For example, Quercus petraea and Fagus rarely grow with alder, so the alderwood equivalents of stand types 6A and 6C are the same as those of 6B and 6D, and there are no alderwood equivalents of been woodland.

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

There he build a giant trap over the water out of a huge cedar trunk split for part of its length and propped open with an alderwood pole.

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