noun
common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
• Syn: ↑American elder, ↑sweet elder, ↑Sambucus canadensis
• Hypernyms: ↑elder, ↑elderberry bush
• Part Meronyms: ↑elderberry
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noun1. : blue elder
2. : a common elder (Sambucus canadensis) of central and eastern No. America
Useful english dictionary. 2012.