hackberry
hak be ree
- n any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits
- n small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States
- His arm shoots out to point at the different kinds of oaks, the elm and the hackberry.
- He started a roaring wood fire in the nickel-plated kitchen range, touched a match to ash and hackberry logs in the living-room fireplace.
- For a day he was conscious of the August sun on the hackberry trees and lilac bushes which he had planted.