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black elder
noun
Elder, Sambucus nigra
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Manfred Jackson was our only black Elder.
I finally worked up the courage to ask my neighbors if I could take cuttings of their gorgeous black elder.
A. The wine-dark leaves, pale pink blossoms and tasty berries of black elder, Sambucus nigra, make it a shrub well worth asking for.
This helps explain the curious silence among many older black South Africans towards the student protests; why Max Price, UCT's white vice-chancellor, conducted a cautious engagement with the angry youth while black elder statesmen at UCT remained silent.
I believed this for a time, in deference to the black elder who told me, until I realized that trauma is not a competition, that there is no better or worse; there is only pain, and a woman's pain is equally worthy of mourning.
Pollen from willow, water lily, and black elder were identified, possibly suggesting their use in healing and pain management.
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Next year I want to incorporate golden hop, smoke bush and black elders.
More and more, the anger of the young has pointed towards their parents and their black elders.
At the founding convention in 1870, two bishops from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, consecrated two black elders as the first bishops of the new church.
Williams's rambunctious father loathed his wife's prim, smug attitude toward the world, her hatred of sex, not to mention what black elders might call her "sanctified" background.
I first met him as a student during the 1970s — a time of big hair and loud voices — when young radicals too often dismissed distinguished black elders as Uncle Toms.
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