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US
/ˈhækˌbɛɹi/
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NOUN
- any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits
- small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States
How To Use hackberry In A Sentence
- Also fairly common are bluejack oak, netleaf hackberry, honey mesquite, and prickly ash.
- Small, brightly-colored fruits such as hackberry and boxthorn are offered as food for birds that swallow them whole. Seed dispersal of desert plants
- Walnut trees can also grow in small groups or as scattered specimens mixed with American elm, hackberry, boxelder, sugar maple, green and white ash, basswood, red oak, and hickory.
- Streams, although they may flow only intermittently, help support the growth of several trees, among them blue palo verde, mesquite, velvet ash, small-leaved mulberry, netleaf hackberry, and soapberry.
- As Hackberry walked deeper into the shadows, the sunlight that had fractured on the ridgeline disappeared, and he could see the tents and the pickup truck and the SUV and the mountainside in detail, and he realized the mistake he had made: You never allow your enemy to become what is known as a barricaded suspect. Rain Gods
- Could we digress and talk about hackberry trees for a minute? Crap Piles and Wabi-Sabi
- Comanche Lookout Park hosts combinations of ashe juniper, Texas and Mexican buckeye, as well as chinaberry, graneno, Lindheimer hackberry, honey mesquite, huisache, and more.
- The earliest inhabitants of the cave utilized the entrance chamber from autumn to winter, as evidenced by a reliance on the fall nut mast, such as hickory and walnut, and wild fruits such as hackberry.
- The paths themselves are being made from the mulch of the hackberry trees that we cut down. Archive 2009-07-01
- Some of the primary plants for butterfly larvae include: aspen, alfalfa, clover, nettle, pearly everlasting, milkweed, grasses, hackberry, parsley, vetch, and willow.