Definitions for serviceberries

serviceberries serv·ice·ber·ry

Spelling: [sur-vis-ber-ee]
IPA: /ˈsɜr vɪsˌbɛr i/

Serviceberries is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 338 anagrams from letters in serviceberries (bceeeeiirrrssv).

Definitions for serviceberries

noun

  1. the fruit of any service tree.
  2. a North American shrub or small tree, Amelanchier canadensis, of the rose family, having serrate, oblong leaves, clusters of white flowers,and a berrylike fruit.
  3. any of various other plants of the genus Amelanchier.

Origin of serviceberries

An Americanism dating back to 1775-85; service2 + berry

Examples for serviceberries

Western serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) is also called pigeonberry and sarvice.

The arrow shafts he made of serviceberry wood, straightening them by drawing them through a hole he had bored in a piece of bone.

Fortunately, the serviceberry is so tenacious of life that it is next to impossible to browse it to death.

Hugh wriggled to his side, and, peeping through a serviceberry bush, looked out across the water.

The serviceberry differs in some points from that of the United States.

Thickets of Gambel oak and Utah serviceberry cover many hillsides and form a zone of brush at higher elevations in the park.

The stream was wooded with cottonwood, box-elder, and cherry, with currant and serviceberry bushes.

He'll sit on his haunches before a serviceberry tree, bend the branches with his paws, and eat off the red fruit wholesale.

In his eyes was the vision of nest and mate, where the serviceberry thicket grew by the wide sub-arctic waters.

A small nest of shredded juniper bark, and a few leaves of serviceberry, were found inside the log.

Word Value for serviceberries
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Words with friends

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