Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun american_elder

1 sense of american elder

Sense 1
American elder, black elderberry, sweet elder, Sambucus canadensis -- (common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies)
       => elder, elderberry bush -- (any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit)