See Also: box elder(encyclopedia)
elder(medicine)
elder(dictionary)
elder(encyclopedia)
elder(2)(dictionary)
elder(1)(dictionary)
Elder, John(encyclopedia)
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elder (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Pliny the Elder(encyclopedia)

elder(2) (iou)



elder noun1.

A common British shrub or low-growing tree, Sambucus nigra, of the honeysuckle family, with cymes of creamy-white flowers, small black berries, and pinnate leaves; any of various other trees of the genus Sambucus. Also elder tree. OE.
dwarf elder = danewort s.v. DANE noun.
Any of several unrelated plants resembling the elder in leaf or flower. L16.
box elder, ground elder, marsh elder, water elder, etc.
Comb.: elderberry the black fleshy fruit of the elder; elder tree: see sense 1 above.