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Definition of Blue elderberry
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies.
Group relationships: Genus Sambucus, Sambucus
Generic synonyms: Elder, Elderberry Bush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Elderberry
Literary usage of Blue elderberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"blue elderberry. 1. SAMBUCUS GLAUCA Nutt. Fig. 117. ... blue elderberry is a tree
15 to 28 feet high with roundish or irregular crown and trunk' J/í to \l/2 ..."
2. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"8. racemosa. 1. Sambucus glauca Nutt. blue elderberry. Plate 84. SAMBUCUS GLAUCA
Nuttall ... The blue elderberry ranges from Washington to Southern ..."
3. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Bishop Sudworth, United States..Forest Service. (1908)
"DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS. blue elderberry is known in the Held simply as "
elder." The name ii*re suggested for the sake of distinctness has reference ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"blue elderberry. Bushy or arborescent, 6 to 25 ft. high; leaves compound with 5
to 7 leaflets; leaflets coriaceous, glabrous, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, ..."
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