genus Sambucus

Thesaurus

Noun

1.genus Sambucus - elder; elderberry Sambucusasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsCaprifoliaceae, family Caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family - shrubs and small trees and woody vineselderberry bush, elder - any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruitblue elder, blue elderberry, Sambucus caerulea - shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jelliesdanewort, dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus - dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor