crackerberry
Americannoun
PLURAL
crackerberriesEtymology
Origin of crackerberry
1865–70, so called from the sound made when it is crunched. See cracker, berry
Example Sentences
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All the little wood things—the ferns and the satin leaves and the crackerberries—have gone to sleep, just as if somebody had tucked them away until spring under a blanket of leaves.
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