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AMERICAN RED ELDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American red elder mean? 

AMERICAN RED ELDER (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN RED ELDER has 1 sense:

1. common North American shrub or small treeplay

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN RED ELDER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMERICAN RED ELDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Common North American shrub or small tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American red elder; red-berried elder; Sambucus pubens; stinking elder

Hypernyms ("American red elder" 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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