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hackberry

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hackberry: see elm elm, common name for the Ulmaceae, a family of trees and shrubs chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere. Elm trees (genus Ulmus) have a limited use as hardwoods for timber, especially the rock or cork elm (U. thomasi).
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hackberry [′hak‚ber·ē]
(botany)
Celtis occidentalis.A tree of the eastern United States characterized by corky or warty bark, and by alternate, long-pointed serrate leaves unequal at the base; produces small, sweet, edible drupaceous fruit.
Any of several other trees of the genusCeltis.


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Finch guarded his pickup as two fellow activists, lugging cameras and tripods, bushwacked through hackberry trees, past junked cars and into a clearing along the edge of Dallas Crown's perimeter.
Other recently vacated thrones, with the previous champ's point totals: cajeput-tree (300), castorbean (49), Allegheny chinkapin (155), Ozark chinkapin (124), littleleaf cyrilla (61), September elm (271), Lindheimer hackberry (127), scrub hickory (121), screwbean mesquite (84), and water-elm (313).
Native trees tulip poplar, wild cherry, elm, willow, and hackberry
 
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