hackberry
- noun
- /ˈhækˌbɛri/
- US
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hackberry
- She picked a ripe hackberry from the tree and tasted its sweet flesh.
Examples
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I picked some hackberries from the tree yesterday.
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Old country recipes sometimes include hackberries as a wild fruit ingredient.
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Many birds feed on the hackberry during the late summer months.
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Have you ever tasted a hackberry before?
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The birds were feasting on the ripe hackberry trees in the warm sunlight.
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After a long hike, we found a tree full of hackberries and enjoyed their sweet taste.
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During our camping trip, we collected hackberries to make a delicious jam.
Synonyms
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A small juicy fruit used in desserts and jams
A small sweet dark purple berry with a large pit that grows in the southern United States
Compounds
A large tree with small purple berries often planted along streets for shade
A tree with bright green leaves often planted for shade in southern Europe
A leafy tree from southern Europe that loses its leaves in winter and gives shade
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hackberry (the fruit) is named from hack + berry, with hack once meaning 'hedge'. A helpful way to remember it is to think 'hedge berry' — a small dark berry that grows on common wild trees.