elderberry bush
Noun
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Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit (synset 112698985)
subtypes:
- 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
- blue elder, blue elderberry, sambucus caerulea - shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
- danewort, dwarf elder, sambucus ebulus - dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor
- black elder, bourtree, common elder, elderberry, european elder, sambucus nigra - a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
- american red elder, red-berried elder, sambucus pubens, stinking elder - common North American shrub or small tree
- european red elder, red-berried elder, sambucus racemosa - Eurasian shrub
belongs to: genus sambucus, sambucus - elder; elderberrysame as: elder
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