elderberries
- plural of elderberry.
Example Sentences
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Built around the metaphor of elderberries, a fruit that can heal or poison depending on how it's handled, the song captures the tension of staying in a relationship you know is toxic.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Back before California was settled by Europeans and others, the Miwok and Nisenan subsisted on a hunter-gatherer diet of acorns, venison, salmon, pine nuts, elderberries, and other berries and plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
An ecosystem of butterfly bushes and elderberries has taken root inside the stone walls and must be removed.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
On his list for building “food habitats” are not just native fruiting shrubs and trees such as blueberries, elderberries, beach plums, persimmons and pawpaws but herbaceous perennials with edible features.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
I found elderberries ripening around a rusted air-handling machine.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
