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Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit
Answer for the clue "Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit ", 8 letters:
shadbush
Word definitions for shadbush in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any plant in genus ''Amelanchier''
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit [syn: Juneberry , serviceberry , service tree , shadblow ]
Usage examples of shadbush.
Hunched over, they sprinted to a small shadbush behind a large boulder.
June-berry is a tree from ten to thirty feet in height, while its close relative, the shadbush, is a low tree and sometimes a shrub.
Then they went over to the stretch of track beyond the point designated Foxtrot, and crouched among barren shadbushes whose berries they had eaten earlier in the year, and lobbed rocks down on the tracks to see how the angle of fire was.