saskatoon
IPA: sˈæskʌtun
Root Word: Saskatoon
noun
- The largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada (2016 census: 246,376 (city); 295,095 (metro)), located on the South Saskatchewan River.
- (Canadian Prairies) A shrub inhabiting western North America (Amelanchier alnifolia).
- (Canadian Prairies) The edible berry of this shrub.
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Examples of "saskatoon" in Sentences
- There's a neat little place called saskatoon berry
- Berries of the saskatoon were ripening and falling;
- It was a dried spray of the blossoms of the saskatoon.
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- You may not have been aware that the saskatoon is to berries as the Cohiba is to cigars.
- He had twirled in his fingers the first little spray of the saskatoon, brought in by Henri Corlier to show how the woods were answering the call of the spring.
- There may be many local or regional exceptions, such as saskatoon itself: if it were not also the name of a city, it is doubtful whether the word would be often heard outside the berry's prairie habitat.
- As he moved away, free of step and straight as an Indian, he filliped away a small budding twig of the saskatoon which one of the youths had brought in to show how the woods were answering the call of the warm sun, and which he had dandled in his fingers as he walked.
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