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buffalo berry

noun

  1. either of two North American shrubs, Shepherdia argentea or S. canadensis, having silvery, oblong leaves and bearing edible yellow or red berries.
  2. the fruit itself.


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Origin of buffalo berry1

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
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“Oh, hon, that’s only ’cause he needs some way to sop up Leafie’s good buffalo berry jelly!”

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Traft devoured several slices of bread with Uncle Chester’s buffalo berry jam and two cups of coffee.

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Jimmy McClean walked among the buffalo berry thickets along the Smoking Earth River.

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Tree species include cottonwood, ash burr oak and box elder and shrub species include false indigo, chokecherry, buffalo berry, American plum and dogwood.

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On the steep banks of this long narrow island, which lies near the south-west bank, there were thickets of poplars, willows, and buffalo berry; the rest 297 of the island is covered with a dark forest of red cedars, of which we immediately felled a good number.

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