Definitions for hackberry

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hackberry hack·ber·ry

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

IPA: /ˈhækˌbɛr i, -bə ri/

Hackberry is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in hackberry (abcehkrry).

Definitions for hackberry

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 hackberry

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

Examples for hackberry

Some of the American species of hackberry are very variable.

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

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

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

The caterpillar feeds on the hackberry (Celtis occidentalis).

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

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