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  • noun any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit

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Examples

  • We've been celebrating the holiday at High Valley for fifteen years, and I always watch closely and eagerly as Spring unfolds from the first snowdrops and crocuses, to the shadblow, the forsythia, daffodils, quince, and then tulips and the first bloom of apple and dogwood.

    Elizabeth Cunningham: Celebrating Beltane: Courage in Hard Times 2010

  • We've been celebrating the holiday at High Valley for fifteen years, and I always watch closely and eagerly as Spring unfolds from the first snowdrops and crocuses, to the shadblow, the forsythia, daffodils, quince, and then tulips and the first bloom of apple and dogwood.

    Elizabeth Cunningham: Celebrating Beltane: Courage in Hard Times 2010

  • I ordered a couple of winterberries from our conservation district, but while the hazelnuts and shadblow have thrived, the winterberries punked out pretty quick.

    Berry Surreal Dreams « Fairegarden 2009

  • Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow

    Marching (100x15) Bruce Schauble 2008

  • Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow

    Archive 2008-02-01 Bruce Schauble 2008

  • Then there are shadblow and delicate anemones, about the time of the cherry blossoms; the brief glory of the apple orchards follows; and then the thronging dogwoods fill the forests with their radiance; and so flowers follow flowers until the springtime splendor closes with the laurel and the evanescent, honey-sweet locust bloom.

    IX. Outdoors and Indoors 1913

  • Then there are shadblow and delicate anemones, about the time of the cherry blossoms; the brief glory of the apple orchards follows; and then the thronging dogwoods fill the forests with their radiance; and so flowers follow flowers until the springtime splendor closes with the laurel and the evanescent, honey-sweet locust bloom.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • Then there are shadblow and delicate anemones, about the time of the cherry blossoms; the brief glory of the apple orchards follows; and then the thronging dogwoods fill the forests with their radiance; and so flowers follow flowers until the springtime splendor closes with the laurel and the evanescent, honey-sweet locust bloom.

    Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • ~forsythia, shadblow, quince~ passed some weeks ago still we gather this May Eve, blossoming boughs of courage.

    Elizabeth Cunningham: Celebrating Beltane: Courage in Hard Times 2010

  • ~forsythia, shadblow, quince~ passed some weeks ago still we gather this May Eve, blossoming boughs of courage.

    Elizabeth Cunningham: Celebrating Beltane: Courage in Hard Times 2010

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