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n. (person) | 1. elder, senior | a person who is older than you are. |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
| ~ doyen, dean | a man who is the senior member of a group.; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents" |
| ~ doyenne | a woman who is the senior member of a group. |
n. (plant) | 2. elder, elderberry bush | any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical northern hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit. |
| ~ genus sambucus, sambucus | elder; elderberry. |
| ~ american elder, black elderberry, sambucus canadensis, sweet elder | common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies. |
| ~ blue elder, blue elderberry, sambucus caerulea | shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies. |
| ~ danewort, dwarf elder, sambucus ebulus | dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor. |
| ~ black elder, bourtree, common elder, elderberry, european elder, sambucus nigra | a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies. |
| ~ american red elder, sambucus pubens, stinking elder, red-berried elder | common North American shrub or small tree. |
| ~ european red elder, red-berried elder, sambucus racemosa | Eurasian shrub. |
| ~ bush, shrub | a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems. |
n. (person) | 3. elder | any of various church officers. |
| ~ church officer | a church official. |
| ~ presbyter | an elder in the Presbyterian Church. |
adj. | 4. elder, older, sr. | used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son.; "Bill Adams, Sr." |
| ~ senior | older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service.; "senior officer" |
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