BLUE ELDERBERRY

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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

Synonyms:

blue elder; blue elderberry; Sambucus caerulea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blue 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)

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

genus Sambucus; Sambucus (elder; elderberry)

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