SWEET ELDER

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Meaning:

Common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies

Synonyms:

American elder; black elderberry; Sambucus canadensis; sweet elder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sweet 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)

Meronyms (parts of "sweet elder"):

elderberry (berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies)

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