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wolfberry

[ woolf-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]

noun

plural wolfberries.
  1. a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, of the honeysuckle family, having gray, hairy, egg-shaped leaves and pinkish, bell-shaped flowers, and bearing white berries.


wolfberry

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noun

  1. the berry of either of two plants of the genus Lycium , valued for its nutritional qualities Alsogoji
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Origin of wolfberry1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35; wolf + berry
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Endangered mud turtles and pupfish drifted through a spring-fed pond; the branches of wolfberry shrubs sagged with orange-red fruit the size of jelly beans.

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Able specializes in moving highly perishable goods, but these days its coolers are stocked with items seldom seen here: cartons of low fat chocolate milk, dried wolfberry powder, bags of Idaho onions, a thousand pounds of Tulare County oranges, dry rice headed to Panama.

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They’d perforate the pipe in both sections to draw oil up, mixing the two meager flows together to make a single good “Wolfberry†well.

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The deal, expected to close in the first quarter of 2012, will add over 170 identified Wolfberry drilling locations and about 10,800 gross acres to Concho's acreage.

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The Wolfberry play is an oil-rich zone.

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