hack|ber|ry

hack|ber|ry
hack|ber|ry «HAK BEHR ee, -buhr-», noun, plural -ries.
1. any one of a genus of North American trees of the elm family that have small, edible, cherrylike fruit; sugarberry.
2. the fruit.
3. the wood of any one of these trees. Also, hagberry.
[American English; variant of hagberry]

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