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shadbush
Esp. Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any of several bushes or shrubby trees of the genus Amelanchier. See also 1932 quote.
See: serviceberry(def. 1)
Quotations
1822
On the skirts of the forest, and of the marshes, are found shadbush, and the red choke-berry. . . .
1917
The serviceberries, also known as juneberries, shad-bushes, and, in the West, the Saskatoons, are deciduous species with simple alternate leaves and slender unarmed twigs.
1932
On the eastern side of the Rockies this June-berry is called the Saskatoon-berry; on the Atlantic shores it is the shad-bush.