elder : Idioms & Phrases

• noun granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33)
  Agrippina.
  

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• noun common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
  black elderberry; American elder; Sambucus canadensis.
  

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• noun common North American shrub or small tree
  American red elder; Sambucus pubens; red-berried elder.
  

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• noun a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
  black elder; bourtree; elderberry; common elder; Sambucus nigra.
  

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• noun shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
  blue elderberry; Sambucus caerulea.
  

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• noun common shade tree of eastern and central United States
  Acer negundo; ash-leaved maple.
  

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• the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America.

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• noun Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)
  Brueghel; Breughel; Pieter Breughel; Pieter Brueghel; Pieter Bruegel; Bruegel; Breughel the Elder.
  

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• noun tall annual marsh elder common in moist rich soil in central North America that can cause contact dermatitis; produces much pollen that is a major cause of hay fever
  false ragweed; Iva xanthifolia.
  

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• noun maple of the Pacific coast of the United States; fruits are white when mature
  Acer negundo Californicum.
  

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• noun a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
  black elder; bourtree; elderberry; common elder; Sambucus nigra.
  

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• noun Italian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (1389-1464)
  Cosimo de Medici.
  

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• noun king of Persia and founder of the Persian Empire (circa 600-529 BC)
  Cyrus the Great; Cyrus II.
  

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• noun the tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC)
  Dionysius.
  

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• noun dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor
  danewort; Sambucus ebulus.
  
• noun bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
  bristly sarsaparilla; bristly sarsparilla; Aralia hispida.
  

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• (Bot.), danewort.
• . See Danewort.

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• noun king of Wessex whose military success against the Danes made it possible for his son Athelstan to become the first king of all England (870-924)
  

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• noun the card player on the dealer's left
  eldest hand.
  

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• (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the right to play, first.

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• noun any influential person whose advice is highly respected
  
• noun an elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders
  

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• . (Bot.) Same as Elder. Shak.

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• noun a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
  black elder; bourtree; elderberry; common elder; Sambucus nigra.
  

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• noun Eurasian shrub
  Sambucus racemosa; European red elder.
  

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• an ancestor. Prov. Eng.

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• noun German painter of religious works (1465-1524)
  Holbein; Hans Holbein.
  

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• . See 2d Elder, 3, note.

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• noun any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers; common in moist areas (as coastal salt marshes) of eastern and central North America
  iva.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) The guelder-rose or cranberry tree (Viburnum Opulus) . (b) In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes (Iva frutescens).
• the cranberry tree Viburnum Opulus).

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• (Bot.), a West Indian name of several plants of the Pepper family, species of Piper and Peperomia.

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• noun Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)
  Brueghel; Breughel; Pieter Breughel; Pieter Brueghel; Pieter Bruegel; Bruegel; Breughel the Elder.
  

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• noun English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)
  First Earl of Chatham; Pitt; William Pitt.
  

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• noun Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
  Gaius Plinius Secundus; Pliny.
  

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• (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district.

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• noun Eurasian shrub
  Sambucus racemosa; European red elder.
  
• noun common North American shrub or small tree
  American red elder; Sambucus pubens; red-berried elder.
  

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• (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.

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• a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session.

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• noun Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC)
  Scipio Africanus; Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major; Scipio; Scipio Africanus Major; Publius Cornelius Scipio.
  

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• noun common North American shrub or small tree
  American red elder; Sambucus pubens; red-berried elder.
  

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• noun Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849)
  Johann Strauss; Strauss.
  

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• noun common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
  black elderberry; American elder; Sambucus canadensis.
  

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1. (Bot.) The guelder-rose.

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• (Bot.), an American plant (Aralia hispida) of the Ginseng family.

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