Elderberry

Definitions: Elderberry

Elderberry

Noun

1. Common black-fruited shrub or small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies.

2. Berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies.

Date "elderberry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Elderberry

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Berry of the Sambucus nigra. Source: European Union. (references)
	The berry of the elder, especially the common elder(Sambucus nigra)used for making jelly, wine, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Elderberry

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) is a small, fast growing shrubby tree. It bears bunches of small white or cream coloured flowers in the spring, that are followed by bunches of small black berries. Both flowers and berries can be made into wine, although the berries should not be eaten raw as they are mildly poisonous, causing vomiting (this mild toxicity is destroyed by cooking).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Elderberry."

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Synonyms: Elderberry

Synonyms: black elder (n), bourtree (n), common elder (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Elderberry

English words defined with "elderberry": black elderberry, blue elderberry ♦ drupe ♦ elderberry bush ♦ genus Sambucus ♦ Sambucus, stone fruit. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Elderberry

Domain	Title
Books	Elderberry Bush (reference) Elderberry flood (reference) Elderberry Flute Song Contemporary Coyote Tales (reference) Elderberry Wine: Vintage 2000 (reference) The Elderberry Thicket (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Elderberry

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Photo Album: Elderberry

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Elderberry TreeSambucusBrush, grassesWildflowers.Credit: Roger Rosentreter.		Elderberry, the edible berrylike drupe of an elder.Credit: T. Hogervorst.
	Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) at Upper Trail Creek.Credit: Terry Tuttle.		Close up of Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) at Upper Trail Creek.Credit: Terry Tuttle.
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Usage Frequency: Elderberry

"Elderberry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Elderberry" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	86.67%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	13.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Elderberry

Expressions using "elderberry": black elderberry ♦ blue elderberry ♦ elderberry bush ♦ elderberry wine. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Elderberry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
elderberry	150
elderberry bush	20
elderberry wine	20
elderberry tree	18
elderberry plant	17
black elderberry	9
elderberry extract	8
elderberry ernas house	7
elderberry recipe wine	7
elderberry juice	6
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Modern Translations: Elderberry

Language		Translations for "elderberry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏البلسان نبات (balm). (various references)

Czech		bezinka. (various references)

Farsi		اقطی(گ.ش.). (various references)

French		sureau (elder). (various references)

German		holunderbeere. (various references)

Hungarian		bodza. (various references)

Korean		양�"�총나무의 열매. (various references)

Manx		berrish hrammanagh. (various references)

Norwegian		hyllebær. (various references)

Pig Latin		elderberryay.(various references)

Russian		ягода бузины, бузина (elder). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Elderberry

Misspellings
	"Elderberry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aldebert, Lederberg. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Elderberry"

Words rhyming with "elderberry" (pronounced 'El"der*ber`ry'): Aleberry, Baneberry, Blindstory, Bob-cherry, Bogberry, Boxberry, Bunchberry, Caperberry, Cassioberry, Chokeberry, Chokecherry, Clerstory, Cloudberry, Counterfleury, Counterflory, Cowberry, Coxcombry, Crowberry, Dangleberry, Deerberry, Dewberry, Dogberry, Dog-weary, Hackberry, Honeyberry, huckleberry, Hurry-skurry, Hurtleberry, Knotberry, Landlordry, Life-weary, Love-drury, midwifery, Morning-glory, Oneberry, Oso-berry, Outlawry, Over-story, Salal-berry, Sheepberry, silverberry, snowberry, Squawberry, teaberry, thimbleberry, Vagabondry, Waxberry, Whortleberry, Wineberry, Wolfberry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Elderberry

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-l-r-r-r-y"
	-1 letter: deerberry.
	-3 letters: bleeder, breeder, rebreed.
	-4 letters: byrled, leered, rebred, redeye, reeled, reeler.
	-5 letters: bedel, beery, berry, beryl, bleed, brede, breed, debye, derby, derry, dryer, elder, erred, leery, rebel, redly, redry, redye, reedy.
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