hackberry
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.
Origin of hackberry
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How to use hackberry in a sentence
On a cool, canvas-covered cot in the shade of the hackberry trees Sam Galloway passed the greater part of his time.
Sixes and Sevens | O. HenryThat evening Sam and old man Ellison dragged their chairs out under the hackberry trees.
Sixes and Sevens | O. HenryHis ranch was a little two-room box house in a grove of hackberry trees in the lonesomest part of the sheep country.
Sixes and Sevens | O. HenryHis guitar hung by its buckskin string to a hackberry limb, moaning as the gulf breeze blew across its masterless strings.
Sixes and Sevens | O. HenryThe hackberry is infested by large numbers of species of Psyllids, and these produce a great variety of interesting galls.
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British Dictionary definitions for hackberry
/ (ˈhækˌbɛrɪ) /
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
Origin of hackberry
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