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

2 senses of elderberry

Sense 1
bourtree, black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra -- (a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for 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)

Sense 2
elderberry -- (berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies)
       => 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)