Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See sheepberry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sheepberry, Viburnum Lentago.
Wiktionary
- n. The sheepberry (plant or fruit).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) See sheepberry.
Etymologies
- From nanny goats' taste for them. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The tentative plan there is to reintroduce staghorn sumac, nannyberry, and other native plants to create a wooded glade.”
“Available species include bald cypress, various dogwood, maple and oak varieties, arrowwood and nannyberry viburnum, black chokeberry, river birch, buttonbush, redbud, Norway spruce, eastern white pine and fragrant sumac.”
“GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1) of 2009-09-17 on nannyberry, modified by Debian Does anyone have any ideas?”
“Brush" isn't one thing at all, but hundreds of species of native plants - wild cranberry, prickly ash, nannyberry, red-twig dogwood, hornbeam, greenbrier, witch hazel.”
“You'll see new views, new beauty - purple nannyberry seeds, the golf ball-size blooms of carrion flower and the weird sci-fi flowers, like computerized explosions, of buttonbush.”
“Just listing some berries will give a rough idea of how many indigenous fruits we’ve never tasted: crackleberry, whimberry, bababerry, bearberry, salmonberry, raccoon berry, rockberry, honeyberry, nannyberry, white snowberry and berryberry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nannyberry’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
Tweets
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