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Answer for the clue "Deciduous shade tree with small black berries ", 10 letters:
sugarberry

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n. hackberry

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n. deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood [syn: Celtis laevigata ] small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States [syn: hackberry ]

Usage examples of sugarberry.

As he hacked his way through a thicket of sugarberry, Yace thought of the houses that were being demolished to provide that timber.

The tall tree near the back looked like a sugarberry, but the fruit was bluish, not red.

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

An immense sugarberry tree, beautifully proportioned, casts inviting shade directly in front of the stoop.

With the low water of summer it finished in a sort of shrub-choked flatland of deep grass, sugarberry, palmetto, and mimosa, but its high-water course was marked by an intermittent line of cypress and magnolia, leading to a thin belt of trees that screened the higher ground.

January fired, and the men scattered, vanished into the tangle of laurel and sugarberry that grew too close around the ruinous house.

Besides, the sugarberries shouldn't have been present at the same time as the flowers on the shrub near the door with figlike leaves.