American elder

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American elder - common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies black elderberry, Sambucus canadensis, sweet elder elderberry - berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies elderberry bush, elder - any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit