Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several North American shrubs or small trees of the genus Shepherdia, having silvery foliage, small yellowish flowers, and edible red or yellow fruit.
- noun The berry of any of these plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
shrubs , of thegenus Shepherdia, native toNorth America . - noun The
berry of these plants.
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Examples
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A late spring frost at higher elevations had already ruined the serviceberry, buffaloberry, and chokecherry crop.
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While Parks Canada and the Canadian Pacific Railway have tried to reduce those deaths by pulling up buffaloberry plants along the tracks and running grain vacuum vehicles along the tracks - among other tactics - it hasn't worked.
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