SAMBUCUS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sambucus mean? 

• SAMBUCUS (noun)
  The noun SAMBUCUS has 1 sense:

1. elder; elderberry

  Familiarity information: SAMBUCUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAMBUCUS (noun)

Meaning:

Elder; elderberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Sambucus; Sambucus

Hypernyms ("Sambucus" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Sambucus" is a member of...):

Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)