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Definition of American hackberry

1. Noun. Large deciduous shade tree of southern United States with small deep purple berries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Hackberry

Literary usage of American hackberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"There are several other species of nettle tree, found in Europe, Asia and South Africa, and there is also a smaller species of American hackberry. ..."

2. The Elements of Forestry: Designed to Afford Information Concerning the by Franklin Benjamin Hough (1882)
"The American hackberry (C. occidentalis) is somewhat southern in its native locality, but is found scattered here and there throughout the Northern, Middle, ..."

3. Practical Forestry: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting, and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1914)
"American hackberry, Nettle-tree, Sugar-berry, False Elm, etc., etc.—Very similar to the last, and by some authors considered a distinct species, ..."

4. Nuttall's Journal of Travels Into the Arkansa Territory October 2, 1818 by Thomas Hulme, Thomas Nuttall, Reuben Gold Thwaites, Fernand Pierre Guéguen (1907)
"... XIII, 104; occidental is (American hackberry), Ш, 29, 53, 77, 78, 176, XIV, 62. Cement, argillaceous, XIV, 73, ..."

5. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants by John Weathers (1901)
"American hackberry.—A Canadian tree 30-50 ft. high with variable ovate taper-pointed serrate leaves, unequal at the base, rough above, hairy beneath. ..."

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