SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS
Dictionary entry overview: What does Sambucus canadensis mean? • SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS (noun)
The noun SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS has 1 sense:
1. common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
Familiarity information: SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS (noun)
Meaning:
Common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American elder; black elderberry; Sambucus canadensis; sweet elder
Hypernyms ("Sambucus canadensis" 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)
Meronyms (parts of "Sambucus canadensis"):
elderberry (berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies)
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