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DWARF ELDER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark

Synonyms:

Aralia hispida; bristly sarsaparilla; bristly sarsparilla; dwarf elder

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dwarf elder" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("dwarf elder" is a member of...):

genus Aralia (type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor

Synonyms:

danewort; dwarf elder; Sambucus ebulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dwarf 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)

Holonyms ("dwarf elder" is a member of...):

genus Sambucus; Sambucus (elder; elderberry)

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