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- noun Alternative spelling of
buffaloberry .
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Examples
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Potential natural vegetation is mostly mixed-grass prairie, with riparian vegetation of cottonwood, snowberry, wildplum, and silver buffalo-berry along the North Platte River.
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"That is how it all came about, and that is why your mothers whip the buffalo-berry bushes and then pick the berries from the ground. Ho!"
Indian Why Stories 1915
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Then he went at the buffalo-berry bushes and pounded them till all of the red berries fell upon the ground -- till the branches were bare of berries.
Indian Why Stories 1915
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Then he went at the buffalo-berry bushes and pounded them till all of the red berries fell upon the ground -- till the branches were bare of berries.
Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903
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"That is how it all came about, and that is why your mothers whip the buffalo-berry bushes and then pick the berries from the ground. Ho!"
Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903
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The bushes of the buffalo-berry were not as yet entirely divested of their delicious burthen, and afforded a new variety of that fruit hitherto not having come under my observation.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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