Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small tree, Viburnum Lentago, of eastern North America. It bears small white flowers in cymes, and black edible drupes.
- noun The fruit of the above tree, so called from its fancied resemblance to sheep-droppings. Also
nanny-berry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (
V. Lentago ), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called alsonannyberry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
plant Viburnum lentago,native to the northeastern and midwesternUnited States and southernCanada . - noun Its
edible fruit .
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The fruit of the sweet viburnum, nanny-berry or sheepberry, is said to be edible.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888
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