Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A northeast North American shrub (Elaeagnus commutata) having silvery flowers, leaves, and berries.
- n. See oleaster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shrub, Elæagnus argentea,. found from Minnesota westward. It grows six or eight feet high, spreads by stolons, has the leaves silvery-scurfy and somewhat rusty beneath, and bears fragrant flowers which are silvery without and paleyellow within, and silvery edible berries which are said to be a principal food of the prairie-chicken in the Northwest.
Wiktionary
- n. A genus, Elaeagnus, of about 50-70 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees with alternate leaves, primarily native to temperate and subtropical regions of Asia.
- n. The fruit of such a plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A tree or shrub (Elæagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits
- n. deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny
- n. deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits
Etymologies
- silver + berry (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Other winter wonders are hybrids of some garden favorites with unusual foliage, including a gold-leafed butterfly bush (Buddleja davidii 'Golden Purple'), a sky flower with green leaves splashed with white, (Duranta repens 'White Lace'), and a silverberry (Elaeagnus ebbingei 'Gilt Edge') with dark olive leaves edged in gold.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘silverberry’.
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Silver
Silvery words. (Mithril doesn't count.)
lessilver, silver, ladysilver, loadsilver, silvery, silversmith, silverwork, silverware, ale-silver, quicksilver, aver-silver, besilver and 242 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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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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I like : S
saga, saturnalia, saturnine, satyriasis, satyricon, scheherazade, schism, scintillate, sciolism, scuppernong, seelie, shadowy and 46 more...
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ogham
birch, rowan, alder, willow, ash, hawthorn, oak, holly, hazel, apple, blackthorn, elder and 79 more...
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