ELDERBERRY
Dictionary entry overview: What does elderberry mean?
• ELDERBERRY (noun)
The noun ELDERBERRY has 2 senses:
1. a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
2. berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
Familiarity information: ELDERBERRY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ELDERBERRY (noun)
Meaning:
A common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
black elder; bourtree; common elder; elderberry; European elder; Sambucus nigra
Hypernyms ("elderberry" is a kind of...):
elder; elderberry bush (any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit)
Meaning:
Berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("elderberry" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)
Holonyms ("elderberry" is a part of...):
American elder; black elderberry; Sambucus canadensis; sweet elder (common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies)
