hackberry

IPA: hˈækbɛri

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Celtis, widespread over the Northern Hemisphere, having small fruit.
The fruit of these plants.
(uncountable) The wood of these plants.
Prunus padus, a species of cherry tree, of Eurasia, or its berry.

Examples of "hackberry" in Sentences

Could we digress and talk about hackberry trees for a minute?
Those gazillions of hackberry trees shaded my property somewhat fierce.
That was when I saw Benny Fritch, running behind a copse of barren hackberry trees.
The paths themselves are being made from the mulch of the hackberry trees that we cut down.
Small, brightly-colored fruits such as hackberry and boxthorn are offered as food for birds that swallow them whole.
Deep-rooted plants, such as hackberry, elm and green ash trees, may tap into groundwater and release more moisture into the air than is replaced by precipitation.
I looked and the trail marched off before me to the horizon, tunneled between thick stands of alder, hackberry and ash; I looked again and the trail was swallowed in a blackness so deep it chilled the soul.