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Edible purple or red berries
Answer for the clue "Edible purple or red berries ", 12 letters:
serviceberry
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Word definitions for serviceberry in dictionaries
WordNet
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 , service tree , shadbush , shadblow ] edible purple or red berries [syn: saskatoon , shadberry , juneberry ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any plant of the genus ''Amelanchier'' of small deciduous trees and large shrubs in the family Rosaceae. 2 The berry of such a plant.
Usage examples of serviceberry.
No: here are the gypsy moths, still in their caterpillar form, chewing at the maple and serviceberry leaves, devouring our neighborhood forest leaf by leaf.
A lone red-tailed hawk spun careful circles over the serviceberry bushes.
Wetherill Mesa Road till she was out of sight of the lodge, then sat under the protective drapery of a serviceberry bush.
The other side dropped off precipitously in a jungle of serviceberry and oakbrush.
Oakbrush and serviceberry had closed ranks, creating a wall impervious to the moonlight.
Even the serviceberry bushes around the back door are brambled up so that they cover the kitchen window completely, and the porch boards shifted and split when I moved up to pry open the sagging door.
He almost felt Athena beside him, bounding over frozen creeks and through thickets of serviceberry shrubs.
Athena beside him, bounding over frozen creeks and through thickets of serviceberry shrubs.
The Hunter, rifle in his hands, dug in a heel and came to a sudden halt on the game trail, motionless, nearly invisible in a thicket of serviceberry and crowded pines.
But that fleeting moment was in a dream, and when she jerked awake under a dark canopy of serviceberry, the dream slipped from her, image, by image though she struggled to keep it, until nothing remained but a sad sense of loss.
Rachel took a furtive step, then another, looking at something amid the broken, dropping-spattered branches of serviceberry, until, with a mournful sigh, she sank to her haunches, her head hanging.
Cranberry Pond, then turning so suddenly that sand was kicked up toward the pond, I would surmise that the beast smelled a dire wolf in the serviceberry thicket between the two maple trees there.
The chief informed us that they had nothing but berries to eat and gave us some cakes of serviceberries and chokecherries which had been dried in the sun.