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water-elder

water-elder noun: a guelder rose, a native shrub in the United Kingdom that thrives in damp, swampy, or limy woodland environments; skow-dower in Cornish.

Noun

water-elder (plural water-elders)

  1. (Cornwall, dialectal) A guelder rose, a native shrub in the United Kingdom that thrives in damp, swampy, or limy woodland environments; skow-dower in Cornish.

Forms of water-elder

pluralwater-elders

Questions about water-elder

What does water-elder mean?
Water-elder means a guelder rose, a native shrub in the United Kingdom that thrives in damp, swampy, or limy woodland environments; skow-dower in Cornish.
What part of speech is water-elder?
Water-elder is a noun.
What is the plural of water-elder?
The plural of water-elder is water-elders.

Words near water-elder in the dictionary

  1. water-cresses
  2. water-cure
  3. water-cures
  4. water-dock
  5. water-docks
  6. water-elder
  7. water-elders
  8. water-fast
  9. water-fear
  10. water-fearing
  11. water-fears

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