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buffalo berry
noun
- either of two North American shrubs, Shepherdia argentea or S. canadensis, having silvery, oblong leaves and bearing edible yellow or red berries.
- the fruit itself.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of buffalo berry1
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
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Example Sentences
There were some who stood their ground and formed an outward-facing circle around the low little buffalo-berry-hung grave.
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As soon as she discovered me, she hastened toward a creek heavily fringed with buffalo-berry bushes.
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The Canadian buffalo berry and a dwarfish birch are two mountain plants of no small ornamental value for the plains.
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“I think his new berry was what we used to call the buffalo berry, in our railway surveys out West,” said Uncle Dick.
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The thickets were quite stripped of their foliage; the buffalo berry bushes alone yet bore some sere yellow leaves.
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