sugarberry
[ shoog-er-ber-ee ]
noun,plural sug·ar·ber·ries.
a hackberry, Celtis laevigata, of the southern U.S.
Origin of sugarberry
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It is in autumn, of course, that the hackberry earns its name, sugarberry.
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