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    ELDERBERRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jelliesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("elderberry" is a kind of...):

    edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

    drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

    Holonyms ("elderberry" is a part of...):

    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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jelliesplay

    Synonyms:

    black elder; bourtree; common elder; elderberry; European elder; Sambucus nigra

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("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)

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