Definitions for hackberries

• Definition
• Anagrams (800)

hackberries hack·ber·ry

Spelling: [hak-ber-ee, -buh-ree]

IPA: /ˈhækˌbɛr i, -bə ri/

Hackberries is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 800 anagrams from letters in hackberries (abceehikrrs).

Definitions for hackberries

noun

1. any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
2. the sometimes edible fruit of such a tree.
3. the wood of such a tree.

Origin of hackberries

1775-85, Americanism; variant of hagberry (of Scandinavian origin)

Examples for hackberries

The 'Squire and hackberry followed suit, and blubbered like schoolboys.

It is in autumn, of course, that the hackberry earns its name, sugarberry.

Some of the American species of hackberry are very variable.

The caterpillar feeds on the hackberry (Celtis occidentalis).

With an air of glad relief, hackberry sprang up and put out his hand.

hackberry has been observed west of one hundred and first meridian.

Mrs. Wolf, will you have a hackberry plate, or do you prefer the scent of cottonwood?

"Don't fuss," said Shorty calmly to them, as he took hackberry's dimensions.

"How in the world did you come here, hackberry," asked Shorty.

The fruit of the black cherry is more plentiful than that of the hackberry.