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hackberry
[ hak-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]
noun
- any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- the sometimes edible fruit of such a tree.
- the wood of such a tree.
hackberry
/ ˈhækˌbɛrɪ /
noun
- any American tree or shrub of the ulmaceous genus Celtis, having edible cherry-like fruits
- the fruit or soft yellowish wood of such a tree
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On a cool, canvas-covered cot in the shade of the hackberry trees Sam Galloway passed the greater part of his time.
That evening Sam and old man Ellison dragged their chairs out under the hackberry trees.
His ranch was a little two-room box house in a grove of hackberry trees in the lonesomest part of the sheep country.
His guitar hung by its buckskin string to a hackberry limb, moaning as the gulf breeze blew across its masterless strings.
The Hackberry is infested by large numbers of species of Psyllids, and these produce a great variety of interesting galls.
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