alder buckthorn

English

Noun

alder buckthorn (plural alder buckthorns)

1. 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.

Translations

Frangula alnus

• Catalan: fràngula f
• Danish: almindelig tørst c
• Dutch: sporkehout (nl) n
• Finnish: paatsama (fi), korpipaatsama (fi)
• French: bourdaine (fr) f
• Galician: sanguiño m
• German: Faulbaum m
• Hungarian: kutyabenge (hu)
• Irish: draighean fearna m
• Italian: frangola f
• Polish: kruszyna pospolita (pl) f
• Portuguese: sanguinho-das-ribeiras m
• Romansch: franguler m
• Russian: круши́на ло́мкая f (krušína lómkaja), круши́на ольхови́дная f (krušína olʹxovídnaja), жо́стер ло́мкий m (žóster lómkij)
• Spanish: arraclán (es) m
• Welsh: breuwydd f pl