Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The shadbush or one of its fruit.
Wiktionary
- n. A genus (Amelanchier) of about 25 species of small deciduous trees and large shrubs in the family Rosaceae.
- n. the berry of this plant
WordNet 3.0
- n. edible purple or red berries
- n. any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit
Etymologies
- service (tree) + berry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Often planted in landscapes, Juneberry, also known as serviceberry, is not common in the wilds of the five boroughs.”
“He includes fruits like juneberry, also known as serviceberry, shadbush or saskatoon (Amelanchier spp.).”
“That post about my serviceberry was my 1000th post. ha.”
“As chokecherry and serviceberry blossoms fade into a plump, hot August, I too expect fall and then winter.”
The Huffington Post: Emma Lou Thayne: Prayers Of Longing And Thanks
“Bushes of chokecherry and serviceberry crowded close under the shade of the aspens.”
“Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m.”
The Washington Post: Green Scene: The bounty of fall includes tours, lectures and workshops
“Ponderosa pine and Gambel oak are common, along with mountain mahogany and serviceberry.”
“These barren-looking mountains are covered instead by dense mountain brush that is dominated by mountain big sagebrush, western serviceberry, snowberry, and low sagebrush.”
“As a result, riparian tree and shrub growth is more extensive than in other Northwestern Great Plains (43) ecoregions; boxelder, snowberry, serviceberry, and bullberry grow along streams and up north-facing slopes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘serviceberry’.
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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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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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habitat
Transforming our yard into a place for living things. The list and the yard will grow in tandem. I will add only as I plant (or discover volunteers).
serviceberry, elderberry, pagoda dogwood, american hazelnut, wild bergamot, spiderwort, rattlesnake master, crabapple, ostrich fern, echinacea, woodland phlox, river birch and 41 more...
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ogham
birch, rowan, alder, willow, ash, hawthorn, oak, holly, hazel, apple, blackthorn, elder and 79 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for serviceberry.
knitandpurl "Also called shadblow, shadbush, juneberry and saskatoon in different areas of the country" (says Horticulture Information). Apr 13, 2009
knitandpurl "I will make something of you both pigment
and insecticide. Something natural,
even red, like serviceberries."
- from "Still Life, with Gloxinia" in Interior with Sudden Joy by Brenda Shaughnessy Apr 7, 2009