noun
shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
• Syn: ↑blue elderberry, ↑Sambucus caerulea
• Hypernyms: ↑elder, ↑elderberry bush
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sambucus, ↑genus Sambucus
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noun or blue elderberry : a shrub or small tree (Sambucus caerulea) of the western United States with white flowers and blue berries covered with a whitish bloom
Useful english dictionary. 2012.