COMMON ELDER

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 I. (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

Synonyms:

black elder; bourtree; common elder; elderberry; European elder; Sambucus nigra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common elder" 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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