hackberry

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hack=ber=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

hackberry, n. 

 A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. Celtis occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hackberry, n. (pl. -ies) US 1 any tree of the genus Celtis, native to N. America, bearing purple edible berries.
2 the berry of this tree.

Etymology

var. of hagberry, of Norse orig.