SERVICEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serviceberry mean? 

• SERVICEBERRY (noun)
  The noun SERVICEBERRY has 2 senses:

1. any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit

2. edible purple or red berries

  Familiarity information: SERVICEBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVICEBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Juneberry; service tree; serviceberry; shadblow; shadbush

Hypernyms ("serviceberry" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "serviceberry"):

juneberry; saskatoon; serviceberry; shadberry (edible purple or red berries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "serviceberry"):

alder-leaved serviceberry; alderleaf Juneberry; Amelanchier alnifolia (shrub or small tree of northwestern North America having fragrant creamy white flowers and small waxy purple-red fruits)

Amelanchier bartramiana; Bartram Juneberry (open-growing shrub of eastern North America having pure white flowers and small waxy almost black fruits)

Holonyms ("serviceberry" is a member of...):

Amelanchier; genus Amelanchier (North American deciduous trees or shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Edible purple or red berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

juneberry; saskatoon; serviceberry; shadberry

Hypernyms ("serviceberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

Holonyms ("serviceberry" is a part of...):

Juneberry; service tree; serviceberry; shadblow; shadbush (any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit)