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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Bot.)

A fetid European species of elder (

Sambucus Ebulus

); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; – called also

Daneweed

Dane’s weed

, and

Dane's-blood

[Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.]

Noun.

A plant of the genus Sambucus; a species of elder, called dwarf-elder or wall-wort.

danewort ‎(plural daneworts)