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hackberry

/hak-ber-ee, -buh-ree/US // ˈhækˌbɛr i, -bə ri //UK // (ˈhækˌbɛrɪ) //

黑莓,黑莓树,黑莓果,黑莓果实

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural hack·ber·ries.

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

Examples

  • On a cool, canvas-covered cot in the shade of the hackberry trees Sam Galloway passed the greater part of his time.

  • That evening Sam and old man Ellison dragged their chairs out under the hackberry trees.

  • His ranch was a little two-room box house in a grove of hackberry trees in the lonesomest part of the sheep country.

  • His guitar hung by its buckskin string to a hackberry limb, moaning as the gulf breeze blew across its masterless strings.

  • The Hackberry is infested by large numbers of species of Psyllids, and these produce a great variety of interesting galls.