sugarberry

[shoog-er-ber-ee]

noun

plural

sugarberries 

1. a hackberry, Celtis laevigata, of the southern U.S.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sugarberry¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; sugar + berry

Example Sentences

Choose your own top: glass, quartz or marble composite, or woods like walnut, maple, spalted sugarberry and ash.

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From this characteristic it is sometimes called sugarberry.

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I have known a pair of bluebirds to brave them on such poor rations as are afforded by the hardhack or sugarberry,—a drupe the size of a small pea, with a thin, sweet skin.

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An immense sugarberry tree, beautifully proportioned, casts inviting shade directly in front of the stoop.

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