Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several North American hackberries, especially Celtis laevigata of the southern United States and northern Mexico.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as hackberry, 2.

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  • noun hackberry

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States
  • noun deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood

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Examples

  • Evidence from the limited remaining forests indicates that original vegetation was primarily species typical of higher bottomlands such as Nuttall oak, willow oak, swamp chestnut oak, sugarberry and green ash.

    Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

  • Before cultivation, this area was covered by bottom-land deciduous forest with an abundance of green and Carolina ash, elm, cottonwood, sugarberry, sweetgum, and water tupelo, as well as oak and bald cypress.

    Lower Mississippi Riverine Forest Province (Bailey) 2009

  • Sandbars often are dominated by pure stands of black willow, while point bars are occupied by diverse forests of cottonwood, sugarberry, sycamore, green ash, and pecan.

    Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

  • Floodplain forests of bottomlands are dominated by sycamore, black walnut, Kentucky coffeetree, sugarberry, and honey locust.

    Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA) 2008

  • Coarser soils have fewer oaks and more sugarberry, elm, ash, pecan, cottonwood, and sycamore than Ecoregion 73d.

    Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

  • The few remaining forests are dominated by species typical of higher bottomlands such as Nuttall oak, willow oak, swamp chestnut oak, sugarberry, and green ash.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • Younger sandy soils have fewer oaks and more sugarberry, elm, ash, pecan, cottonwood, and sycamore than Ecoregion 73d.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • The canopy of trees closed over him, tall bottom-land hardwoods -- oaks, cypress, and sweetgum trees, an occasional elderberry and sugarberry tree.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • The canopy of trees closed over him, tall bottom-land hardwoods -- oaks, cypress, and sweetgum trees, an occasional elderberry and sugarberry tree.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Tam arrived red cheeked and breathless at the village commons just in time to see Pel Baker pull his first batch of bubbling sugarberry pies out of a brick oven.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

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