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ELDERBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("elderberry" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)
Holonyms ("elderberry" is a part of...):
American elder; black elderberry; Sambucus canadensis; sweet elder (common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies)
Sense 2
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:
Hypernyms ("elderberry" 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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