Word Meanings - ELDERBERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder and that of the American sweet elder are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.

Related words: (words related to ELDERBERRY)

• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• DRUPE
  A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• WORLD-WIDE
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• BERRYING
  A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.
• AMERICAN
  1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
• AMERICANISM
  1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
• SWEETEN
  Etym: 1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. 2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. To make less painful
• SWEETNESS
  The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
• ELDERBERRY
  The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder and that of the American sweet elder are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wine.
• ELDER
  1. Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett 2. Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now
• AMERICAN PLAN
  In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• BAYBERRY
  The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle . The fruit of Myrica cerifera ; the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry
• KNOTBERRY
  The cloudberry ; -- so called from its knotted stems.
• JUNEBERRY
  The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and had tree.
• DEWBERRY
  The fruit of certain species of bramble ; in England, the fruit of R. cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries. The plant which bears the fruit. Feed him with apricots
• CASSIOBERRY
  The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.
• SOAPBERRY TREE
  Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.