noun
- Plural of hagberry; the small dark berries of the bird cherry tree, or the tree itself.
Usage: chiefly British and Scottish; also called bird cherry
Examples
- The hagberries hung in clusters from the branches of the old tree.
- Children in Scotland would gather hagberries in late summer.
- The dark hagberries were too tart to eat raw.
- Hagberries grow wild throughout the northern regions.
- The birds eagerly consumed the ripe hagberries.