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Definition of Common snowberry

1. Noun. Deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Snowberry

Literary usage of Common snowberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1857)
"A new and highly ornamental species of the common snowberry, from Mexico, ... In habit it resembles the common snowberry, but the leaves are much smaller, ..."

2. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1856)
"common snowberry. — This is a delicate, hardy, North American shrub, extensively known and much cultivated on account of its fine white berries, ..."

3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"Seed or division. SYMPHORICARPUS (Snowberry^.- The common Snowberry (S.racemosus; is a familiar shrub, but we would exclude it from a choice selection ..."

4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Ule common Snowberry of cultivation, and all the California species have snow- A North American genus, of several species, at least one of them in the ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"... in the common snowberry of our shrubberies, which is an undeveloped honeysuckle with a very short and round tube. Its blossoms are a pale and rather ..."

6. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Flowers pale red. Berries globose, large, very white and opaque. common snowberry. 7. LINN.S5A. Gron. ..."

7. The English Flower Garden: Design, Arrangement and Plans Followed by a by William Robinson (1895)
"The common Snowberry (S. racemosus) is a familiar shrub, but we would exclude it from a choice selection ; also the Wolf Berry (S. occidentalis) ; and S. ..."

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