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dwarf elder

NOUN
  1. bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
  2. dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor

How To Use dwarf elder In A Sentence

  • What will remain uppermost in the mind are surely the banks of dwarf elder Sambucus ebulus, also known as danewort, with their hordes of nectaring Hairstreaks.
  • _Sambucus ebulus_, dwarf elder, walwort, or danewort -- among the rubbish and ruined foundations of the Priory. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
  • The dwarf elder or Danewort (supposed to have been introduced into Britain by the Danes), S. Ebulus, a common European species, reaches a height of about 6 ft.
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