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  • noun Plural form of hackberry.

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Examples

  • There was no timber along our route today except small hackberries in the valleys and scrubby mesquite on the prairies.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • Then, I exacerbated the problem when I chopped down every single “trash tree” mostly hackberries and lugustrums so that all the little fruit trees I planted would get more sunlight.

    Growing Grass 2009

  • Then, I exacerbated the problem when I chopped down every single “trash tree” mostly hackberries and lugustrums so that all the little fruit trees I planted would get more sunlight.

    2009 February | Inner City Farmer 2009

  • Live oaks and hackberries are dominant canopy species on many of the ridges, with an understory of palmetto and prickly pear cactus.

    Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA) 2008

  • This formation is fossiliferous and mammals, turtles, snails, and hackberries are just a few of the remains that have been found in these layers.

    Archive 2006-10-01 ScienceWoman 2006

  • But growing up we had two very large hackberries in our backyard.

    Plant It And They Will Come « Fairegarden 2008

  • Smaller trees are completely covered with climbing moss while the ground is covered with salal, deer fern and hackberries along with tiny toadstools to gigantic brown, yellow and purple mushrooms, all being munched by banana and freaking gigantic black slugs you step on this sucker, and he is taking your shoe with him for pissing him off.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • Smaller trees are completely covered with climbing moss while the ground is covered with salal, deer fern and hackberries along with tiny toadstools to gigantic brown, yellow and purple mushrooms, all being munched by banana and freaking gigantic black slugs you step on this sucker, and he is taking your shoe with him for pissing him off.

    Carmanah: If you go into the woods today.... Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • There were many wild fruits, especially hackberries, which Christine thought may have been used to make some sort of juice or possibly even an early fermented wine.

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

  • In these sections, which were taken from an area of the building near a hearth or oven, Wendy was able to identify charred fragments of cereals, grasses, and hackberries as well as traces of animal dung that had been used as fuel, all of which were typical remains of everyday living in the Neolithic.

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

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