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AMERICAN ELDER
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I. (noun)
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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:
Hypernyms ("American 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 "American elder"):
elderberry (berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies)
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