BLUE ELDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue elder mean? 

• BLUE ELDER (noun)
  The noun BLUE ELDER has 1 sense:

1. shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies

  Familiarity information: BLUE ELDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE ELDER (noun)

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Meaning:

Shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue elder; blue elderberry; Sambucus caerulea

Hypernyms ("blue 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)

Holonyms ("blue elder" is a member of...):

genus Sambucus; Sambucus (elder; elderberry)