BLACK ELDERBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black elderberry mean? 

• BLACK ELDERBERRY (noun)
  The noun BLACK ELDERBERRY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BLACK ELDERBERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK ELDERBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American elder; black elderberry; Sambucus canadensis; sweet elder

Hypernyms ("black 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)

Meronyms (parts of "black elderberry"):

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