elderberry bush

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elderberry bush - any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit elder genus Sambucus, Sambucus - elder; elderberry American elder, black elderberry, Sambucus canadensis, sweet elder - common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies blue elder, blue elderberry, Sambucus caerulea - shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies danewort, dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus - dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor black elder, bourtree, 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 American red elder, Sambucus pubens, stinking elder, red-berried elder - common North American shrub or small tree European red elder, red-berried elder, Sambucus racemosa - Eurasian shrub bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems