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1.
hilder
n.
18 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) The European elder (Sambucus nigra);
hilder tre
; (b)
hilder tre
, ?the European alder [see
alder
n. (1)]; (c) in place names [see Smith
PNElem.
1.274].
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