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BOURTREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bourtree mean?
• BOURTREE (noun)
The noun BOURTREE has 1 sense:
1. a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
Familiarity information: BOURTREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
black elder; bourtree; common elder; elderberry; European elder; Sambucus nigra
Hypernyms ("bourtree" 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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