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hackberry

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1. A genus of trees ( Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.

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A hackberry sapling one inch in stem diameter grew through the middle of the house, providing further support. - "Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana", Henry S. Fitch Dennis G. Rainey.
And on our left was a tropical forest in all its bewildering luxuriance, the live- oak, the hackberry, the myrtle, the Spanish bayonet in bristling groups, and the shaded places gave out a scented moisture like an orangery; anon we passed fields of corn and cotton, swamps of rice, stretches of poverty- stricken indigo plants, gnawed to the stem by the pest. - "The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill", Winston Churchill.

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