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Small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits
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hackberry
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Population (2000): 544 Housing Units (2000): 162 Land area (2000): 0.537053 sq. miles (1.390962 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.001543 sq. miles (0.003996 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.538596 sq. miles (1.394958 sq. km) FIPS code: 31715 Located within: Texas ...
WordNet
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n. any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits [syn: nettle tree ] small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States [syn: sugarberry ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hackberry \Hack"ber`ry\ (h[a^]k"b[e^]r`r[y^]), n. (Bot.) A genus of trees ( Celtis ) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. Celtis occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States. --Gray.
Wikipedia
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Hackberry may refer to: Botany: Celtis , genus of deciduous trees known as hackberries Prunus padus , a species of cherry tree Entomology: a number of brush-footed butterflies in the genus Asterocampa : Hackberry butterfly, Asterocampa celtis Eastern hackberry ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several small shrubs or trees of the genus ''Celtis'', of North America, having small fruit. 2 ''Prunus padus'', a cherry tree, of Eurasia. 3 The purple-black fruit of such plants. 4 (context uncountable English) The soft wood of such plants.
Usage examples of hackberry.
Somewhere along the stream a pileated woodpecker began drumming against a tree trunk in search of an insect snack and the racket startled a pair of prothonotary warblers from their roost in a nearby hackberry sapling.
The College is raising red oak, black walnut, oriental sycamore, sugar maple, elm, hackberry, snowdrop tree, Juneberry, hickory, European larch, Norway maple and box elder for this purpose.
Bobby took the older, more established part of Holt, the south side where the wide flat streets were lined with elm trees and locust and hackberry and evergreen, where the comfortable two-story houses were set back in their own spaces of lawn and where behind them the car garages opened out onto the graveled alleys, while Ike, for his part, took the three blocks of Main Street on both sides, the stores and the dark apartments over the stores, and also the north side of town across the railroad tracks, where the houses were smaller with frequent vacant lots in between, where the houses were painted blue or yellow or pale green and might have chickens in the back lots in wire pens and here and there dogs on chains and also car bodies rusting among the cheetweed and redroot under the low-hanging mulberry trees.
They were huddled together against a stand of hackberries, barely seen shapes and shadows in the night.
The land rose to a shallow flat-topped knob of wide pinky-gray steps that had resisted the bushes and prevented the spread of treesdwarf hackberries and maples here.
He'd ridden over the countryside enough to get a feel for it: the open land where the soil rose a little higher, and the lower stretches often impassable with clumps of alder, hackberry and shrubs woven together with California rose and wild grapevines, blackberries and brambles.
We were riding in the lower foothills of the Sierra Madre now, and while the ridges were covered with pines, the lower slopes were a lush growth of maple, juniper, oak, and willow, with a thick underbrush of rose and hackberry.