snowberry, common snowberry, waxberry, Symphoricarpos alba
(noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
snowberry (plural snowberries)
A shrub bearing white berries
now especially of the genus Symphoricarpos
also Gaultheria, especially Gaultheria oppositifolia, and
(Australia) Schizomeria ovata
The fruit of shrubs of these genera.
Source: Wiktionary
Snow"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America. Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
