Definitions for serviceberry

serviceberry serv·ice·ber·ry

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

Serviceberry is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 312 anagrams from letters in serviceberry (bceeeirrrsvy).

Definitions for serviceberry

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 serviceberry

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

Examples for serviceberry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for serviceberry
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Words with friends

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