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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.


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ELDERBERRY (noun)


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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)


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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)


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