sugarberry
9.5
A tree in the southern United States that loses its leaves and has light yellow wood and small sweet berries
- noun
- /ˈsʌɡərˌbɛri/
- US
:
árbol de bayas de azúcar
- Among the trees are American elm, cabbage palm, live oak, pignut hickory, southern magnolia, and sugarberry.
Examples
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She went looking for her grandfather and found him asleep beneath the sugarberry tree.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sugarberry tree produces small, sweet, dark berries that attract many birds.
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On hot days, the children liked to sit in the shade of the sugarberry tree.
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The soft yellowish wood of the sugarberry is often used for making furniture.
Synonyms
9.9
A tree that loses its leaves, has small black berries and soft yellow wood in the southern United States
is the common name for the same tree, focusing on its sweet dark berries
Surface Forms
sugarberry singular
sugarberries plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word sugarberry comes from the English words sugar ('sweet') and berry ('small fruit'), and the tree is called sugarberry because it produces those sweet dark berries and has soft yellow wood.
