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EUROPEAN 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
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Hypernyms ("European 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)