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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Floodplain forests of bottomlands are dominated by sycamore, black walnut, Kentucky coffeetree, sugarberry, and honey locust.
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Coarser soils have fewer oaks and more sugarberry, elm, ash, pecan, cottonwood, and sycamore than Ecoregion 73d.
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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.
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Younger sandy soils have fewer oaks and more sugarberry, elm, ash, pecan, cottonwood, and sycamore than Ecoregion 73d.
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The canopy of trees closed over him, tall bottom-land hardwoods -- oaks, cypress, and sweetgum trees, an occasional elderberry and sugarberry tree.
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The canopy of trees closed over him, tall bottom-land hardwoods -- oaks, cypress, and sweetgum trees, an occasional elderberry and sugarberry tree.
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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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