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water elder

water elder is the alternative form of water-elder.

Meaning of water-elder

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 is water elder the alternative form of?
Water elder is the alternative form of water-elder.

Words near water elder in the dictionary

  1. water drum
  2. water drums
  3. water dumping
  4. water dumpings
  5. Water Eaton
  6. water elder
  7. water elephant
  8. water elephants
  9. water engine
  10. water engines
  11. water equivalent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: water elder (page history and authors); water-elder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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