Lexic.us

Definition of Black elder

1. Noun. A common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Elder

Literary usage of Black elder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Analyst (1877)
"black elder. (4). The lake is clear bluish or greenish. The filtrate is clear bottle-green. A sample treated with sodium carbonate (as at <? ..."

2. On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise by Mr Marshall, Marshall (William) (1803)
"The COMMON ELDER admits of many Varieties: The black elder, The White-berried Elder, The Green-berried Elder, The Gold-striped Elder, The Parsley-leaved ..."

3. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis: A Manual for the Use of Analytical by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1896)
"Sometimes (black elder) it acquires a lilac tint, which almost immediately disappears, changing to a greenish-grey-blue, whortleberries, black elder, ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"Nature of the Hydrocyanic Glucoside obtained from black elder. ... The authors make an extract of the leaves of black elder. From the liquid obtained on the ..."

5. Flora Medica: Containing Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal by George Spratt (1829)
"... if this last is not a distinct species, the lobes of the leaves being much less, and but slightly serrated compared to the black elder ; we have raised ..."

6. History of the Presbyterian Church, in the State of Illinois by Augustus Theodore Norton, David Williams Evans (1879)
"It was organized by Nathan B. Derrow, probably in the fall of 1817, with nine members, John Black, Elder. It was visited in November, 1824, by Rev. ..."

7. Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise by Marshall (1785)
"... The black elder. The White-berried Elder. The Green-berried Elder. ... S The Common black elder is too well known to require any ..."

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