GENUS SAMBUCUS
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sambucus mean? • GENUS SAMBUCUS (noun)
The noun GENUS SAMBUCUS has 1 sense:
1. elder; elderberry
Familiarity information: GENUS SAMBUCUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS SAMBUCUS (noun)
Meaning:
Elder; elderberry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Sambucus; Sambucus
Hypernyms ("genus Sambucus" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus Sambucus"):
elder; elderberry bush (any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit)
blue elder; blue elderberry; Sambucus caerulea (shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies)
danewort; dwarf elder; Sambucus ebulus (dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor)
Holonyms ("genus Sambucus" is a member of...):
Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)
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