Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An eastern North American shrub (Viburnum lentago) having clusters of white flowers and blue-black fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sheepberry, Viburnum Lentago.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
sheepberry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
sheepberry (plant or fruit).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The tentative plan there is to reintroduce staghorn sumac, nannyberry, and other native plants to create a wooded glade.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Available species include bald cypress, various dogwood, maple and oak varieties, arrowwood and nannyberry viburnum, black chokeberry, river birch, buttonbush, redbud, Norway spruce, eastern white pine and fragrant sumac.
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GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1) of 2009-09-17 on nannyberry, modified by Debian Does anyone have any ideas?
LinuxQuestions.org joe2748 2010
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"Brush" isn't one thing at all, but hundreds of species of native plants - wild cranberry, prickly ash, nannyberry, red-twig dogwood, hornbeam, greenbrier, witch hazel.
CounterPunch 2009
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You'll see new views, new beauty - purple nannyberry seeds, the golf ball-size blooms of carrion flower and the weird sci-fi flowers, like computerized explosions, of buttonbush.
CounterPunch 2009
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Just listing some berries will give a rough idea of how many indigenous fruits we’ve never tasted: crackleberry, whimberry, bababerry, bearberry, salmonberry, raccoon berry, rockberry, honeyberry, nannyberry, white snowberry and berryberry.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Just listing some berries will give a rough idea of how many indigenous fruits we’ve never tasted: crackleberry, whimberry, bababerry, bearberry, salmonberry, raccoon berry, rockberry, honeyberry, nannyberry, white snowberry and berryberry.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Just listing some berries will give a rough idea of how many indigenous fruits we’ve never tasted: crackleberry, whimberry, bababerry, bearberry, salmonberry, raccoon berry, rockberry, honeyberry, nannyberry, white snowberry and berryberry.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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