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(US) The edible flower clusters (umbels) of the elder tree (Sambucus nigra)..
1838, Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 22nd edition, enlarged, p. 27, A poultice of elder-blow tea and biscuit is good as a preventive to mortification.
I wouldn’t tech it sooner a cow’d eat elder blows.
What are his [the writer’s] garland and singing robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him,—all emblems and personal appeals to him.
[…] the long highway broidered thick With elder-blow and rose;
[…] the elder was all in bloom now; and Anna wanted to make elder-blow wine.
Elderflowers glow like incandescent seafoam in the darkness. They, too, are good to eat. We make a fine tea of them to serve with elder blow fritters on the deck at night.
Use elder-blow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elder-blow means (US) The edible flower clusters (umbels) of the elder tree (Sambucus nigra)..
Common synonyms include elder bloom, elder blossom, elderflower.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1838, Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 22nd edition, enlarged, p. 27, A poultice of elder-blow tea and biscuit is good as a preventive to mortification.
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