elderberry
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- noun
- /ˈɛldərˌbɛri/
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bayas de saúco
- It's nothing really, but she should have a teaspoon of elderberry in the morning.
- elderberry wine
- elderberry extract
- black elderberries
Examples
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You can make delicious jelly from elderberry fruits harvested in the fall.
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I get joy out of hearing the grandchildren spy a bunch of elderberries and choke cherries.
Blog text (20) -
And perhaps a touch of elderberry wine.
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And, possibly, some elderberry wine.
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Elderberry wine, I made it myself.
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I've got some elderberry juice in the smokehouse.
Fiction book (1990) -
Elderberry wine.
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Half a mile farther on, the road ended up in a field too marshy for any use, with weedy poplars growing up through the willow bushes and elderberries.
Fiction book (1994) -
Bessy sends over from Vidalia syrupy concoctions steeped from elderberries and scuppernongs.
Academic text (1991) -
At twilight, at a distance of one hundred paces, I was able to distinguish the single berries in a cluster of elderberries; at sixty paces, I could distinguish an elderberry from a black currant.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
A North American bush that makes dark purple berries used to make wine and jam
A shrub with clusters of dark purple berries used to make jam, syrup or wine
A small tree or shrub with white flowers and clusters of blue berries
A shrub or small tree with white flowers and blue berries used for jams and wines
A bush or small tree that has clusters of bright red berries
Compounds
A shrub or small tree with white flowers and blue berries used for jams and wines
A shrub with clusters of dark purple berries used to make jam, syrup or wine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elderberry is made from elder (the tree) and berry, so it literally means the 'berry of the elder tree'. People have used these small dark berries for jam, wine and home remedies for a long time, which is why the word now means the fruit and products made from it.