snowberry
IPA: snˈoʊbɛri
noun
- A shrub bearing white berries:
- now especially of the genus Symphoricarpos
- also Gaultheria, especially Gaultheria oppositifolia, and
- (Australia) Schizomeria ovata
- The fruit of shrubs of these genera.
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Examples of "snowberry" in Sentences
- Beautiful snowberry moth in mid flight.
- Skunkbush sumac and western snowberry are common shrubs.
- Prairie rose and snowberry are common shrubs found in these grasslands.
- I thought I knew the lower one was a snowberry clearwing but now im not sure.
- Douglas-fir with an understory of snowberry and pinegrass grows in mesic areas and on north-facing slopes.
- I stopped beside a scrubby little bush we children called the snowberry, the fruit of which was reputed to be poisonous.
- The snowberry is a native of North America, where it grows on dry and stony banks from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
- Southerly slopes support mountain big sagebrush, mountain mahogany, snowberry and rose with an understory of Idaho fescue.
- These barren-looking mountains are covered instead by dense mountain brush that is dominated by mountain big sagebrush, western serviceberry, snowberry, and low sagebrush.
- Potential natural vegetation is mostly mixed-grass prairie, with riparian vegetation of cottonwood, snowberry, wildplum, and silver buffalo-berry along the North Platte River.
- As a result, riparian tree and shrub growth is more extensive than in other Northwestern Great Plains (43) ecoregions; boxelder, snowberry, serviceberry, and bullberry grow along streams and up north-facing slopes.
- MOLLY AND ANTONIO MANZANARES RANCH SHEEP MUCH AS THEIR ANCESTORS DID, riding horseback to move their flock from one high desert pasture to another to graze on lush mountain grasses and mountain mahogany and snowberry.
- From up here the rolling slope of yellow green grasses looks like an untouched prairie, patchworked with snowberry and chokecherry and elderberry, the way it must have looked when the Blackstocks grazed their cattle or the Indians traded skins and beads, or even a time before any human had seen this land.
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