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summerberry
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the edible, purplish berry of the saskatoon bush.
See: saskatoon berry(def. 1)
Quotations
1793
The wild plumb, and Grape, the pair, choak and sand cherries, Summer berry and the Raspberry are also natives of this [Assiniboine] country.
1940
On the last day of August--the year of 1812--we drew in to the bosky bank of Red River, otherwise known as Summerberry River. . . .
1952
. . . they picked quantities of summerberries and wild rice and made jelly of the first and sacked the latter in rawhide bags.