Usually means: Shrub used for medicinal purposes.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. alder buckthorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. alder buckthorn: Collins English Dictionary
  3. alder buckthorn: Vocabulary.com
  4. alder-buckthorn: Wordnik
  5. alder buckthorn: Wiktionary
  6. alder buckthorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. alder buckthorn: Dictionary.com
  8. Alder buckthorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. alder buckthorn: Rhymezone
  10. alder buckthorn: FreeDictionary.org
  11. alder buckthorn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. alder buckthorn: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alder buckthorn: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. alder buckthorn: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alder Buckthorn: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alder buckthorn)

noun:  A deciduous shrub, Frangula alnus, native to Europe and neighboring areas of Asia and Africa, bearing glossy leaves, flowers in sessile umbels, and inedible red berries that turn black when ripe, and historically used as a laxative and to produce dyes.

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