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Definition of Sheepberry

1. n. The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.

Definition of Sheepberry

1. Noun. The plant ''Viburnum lentago'', native to the northeastern and midwestern United States and southern Canada. ¹

2. Noun. Its edible fruit. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sheepberry

1. [n -RIES]

Medical Definition of Sheepberry

1. The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Synonym: nannyberry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepberry

Literary usage of Sheepberry

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

1. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"sheepberry. Black Haw. Nanny- berry. Leaves ovate-acuminate, petioles usually winged. Flowers perfect, in flat clusters from three to five inches across, ..."

2. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green (1902)
"This genus includes the well-known Snowball, which is a sterile form of the Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum opulus). Viburnum lentago. sheepberry. Black Haw. ..."

3. Pamphlets on Forestry in Minnesota (1898)
"sheepberry. 1. Flowering branch. one-half natural size. 2. Diagram of flower. 3. Flower. enlarged. 4. Longitudinal section of flower. the corolla and ..."

4. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The withe-rods and sheepberry Viburnums have plum-shaped leaves with fine ... Some of them, like the sheepberry, the downy arrow- wood and the high bush ..."

5. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"Open thickets on the sides of ravines on the Rice Lake plains were favorite localities for the sheepberry. Another dwarf June-berry, not more than five or ..."

6. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"In the sheepberry the fruits are blue or black, with flat disk-like stones. ... Some of them, like the sheepberry, the downy arrow- wood and the ..."

7. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... sheepberry A A. Branches stout; winter buds stout; petiole margins narrow, (V'. rufidulum) RUSTY NANNYBERRY BB. Leaves and petioles smooth. not wavy. ..."

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