Hackberry Definition

hăkbĕrē
hackberries
noun
Any of a genus (Celtis) of American trees of the elm family, with a small fruit resembling a cherry.
Webster's New World
Its fruit or its wood.
Webster's New World
The soft yellowish wood of any of these trees or shrubs.
American Heritage
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Noun

Singular:
hackberry
Plural:
hackberries

Origin of Hackberry

  • Alteration of obsolete hagberry, hegberry hag-, heg- hackberry (from Old Norse heggr) berry

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • hack +‎ berry

    From Wiktionary

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