Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two eastern North American hollies, inkberry or Ilex coriacea, having leathery leaves, small white flowers, and black berries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The inkberry, Ilex glabra, of the southern United States.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The soil which is known as the gallberry soil is not of a uniform composition or appearance; one of the most common kinds is formed of sand, intermixed with black vegetable matter.
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Then I stopped in a clump of "gallberry" bushes to make observations.
War stories and school-day incidents for the children, Berrien McPherson 1912
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I explained to the boys that a few hundred yards ahead was a pond, the main road passing through the edge of it and a "turn-out," dry road around it, with "gallberry" bushes between the two roads.
War stories and school-day incidents for the children, Berrien McPherson 1912
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As an example of the better kind of gallberry land, I propose to give the composition of one which occupies a large area in Onslow county, which, on being submitted to analysis, gave the following results:
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A dense understory of palmetto, gallberry, wax myrtle and grasses supply abundant cover and forage for deer.
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Seeps in sand hills support acid bog species including southern sweetbay, gallberry, wax-myrtles, fetterbush, insectivorous plants, orchids, and wild azalea.
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Pocosins, an ancient Algonquin term for swamp-on-a-hill are characterized as extensive flat damp, sandy or peaty areas far from streams with a scattered growth of pond pine (Pinus serotina) and a dense growth of mostly evergreen shrubs (often gallberry, Ilex glabra), that taken together, resemble a heath scrub community.
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The more open borders of these swampy woods may be covered by dense thickets of swamp cyrilla, black titi and large gallberry.
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For bolder flavor, try a dark honey, such as gallberry.
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My tastebuds hesitated, but wavered on the edge of forgiving me for the gallberry syrup.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
hernesheir commented on the word gallberry
Gallbery is a key component of the pine flatwoods of the SE US. Honey produced from the gallbery bloom is sweet and fragrant with hints of complexity and richness.
November 10, 2009