elderberry bush

1. 1.

   any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit

   Synonymselder

   Broadershrub

   NarrowerAmerican elderblue elderdwarf elderbourtreeAmerican red elderEuropean red elder

   Part ofSambucus

Questions about elderberry bush

What does elderberry bush mean?

elderberry bush means "any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit".

What is another word for elderberry bush?

Close synonyms include elder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elderberry bush a common word?

elderberry bush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.