sheepberry
Americannoun
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sheepberries
plural
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a North American shrub or small tree, Viburnum lentago, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of small white flowers and edible, berrylike black drupes.
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the fruit itself.
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The fruit of the sweet viburnum, nanny-berry or sheepberry, is said to be edible.
From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard
In our native woods the sheepberry is a small round-headed tree, with slim, drooping branches and oval leaves, finely cut-toothed and tapering to wavy-winged petioles.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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