The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ALDER
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More clues leading to the result ALDER
- Tree’s more bare with top removed
- Tree more bare with bark initially removed
- Some scared lads up a tree
- Tree written about in cultured language
- Tree with less on top? No top at all!
- One who's left note upset timber producer
- Local dignitary, man hiding in tree
- French marshal falling out of Channel Island tree
- Tree more bare: bark initially removed
- Wood shaving now shaved?
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What does ALDER mean?
ALDER noun- Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
- An alderman or alderwoman.