NOUN | plant | Sambucus canadensis, American elder, black elderberry, sweet elder | common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries |
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Meaning | common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies. | |
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Synonyms | American elder, black elderberry, sweet elder | |
Parts | elderberry | berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies |
Broader | elder, elderberry bush | Any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit |
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