noun
- a North American shrub or small tree that produces edible purple-black berries
Usage: also called serviceberry or Juneberry
Examples
- The shadberry bushes were heavy with ripe fruit in early summer.
- Native Americans traditionally used shadberries to make pemmican.
- We picked shadberries along the hiking trail for our pancakes.
- The shadberry tree’s white flowers bloom before its leaves appear.
- Birds love to feast on the sweet shadberries in June.
- My grandmother made delicious shadberry pie every summer.