white alder

English Thesaurus

1. shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bush, shrub,
definition	:	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (noun.plant)

2. tree of western United States (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	alder, alder tree,
definition	:	north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	alnus, genus alnus,
definition	:	alders (noun.plant)