Crossword clues for hackberry
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.
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.
WordNet
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]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 818
Land area (2000): 82.241483 sq. miles (213.004455 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.443713 sq. miles (29.639080 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 93.685196 sq. miles (242.643535 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32405
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 29.986485 N, 93.397190 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70645
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hackberry
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 (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.150134 N, 96.918702 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hackberry
Wikipedia
Hackberry may refer to:
Botany:- Celtis, genus of deciduous trees known as hackberries
- Prunus padus, a species of cherry tree
- a number of brush-footed butterflies in the genus Asterocampa:
- Hackberry butterfly, Asterocampa celtis
- Eastern hackberry butterfly, Asterocampa celtis celtis, a subspecies of the above
- Florida hackberry butterfly, A. c. reinthali, another subspecies
- Western hackberry butterfly, A. c. antonia
- Desert hackberry butterfly, Asterocampa leilia
- Hackberry, Arizona
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Hackberry, Louisiana
- Hackberry High School, located in Hackberry, Louisiana
- Hackberry, Texas
- Hackberry Group, a cluster of ruins in Hovenweep National Monument
- USS Hackberry (AN-25), an Aloe-class net laying ship built for the United States Navy during World War II
- Hackberry, an Android/Linux single-board computer
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.