hackberry
IPA: hˈækbɛri
noun
- 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.