n. a shrub of the genus Shepherdia, as S. canadensis; also, the edible red berry of this shrub.
See also: buffalo berry
- 1918  (1919)  In summer, when in turn the service berries, choke-cherries, and bull berries ripened, we feasted upon them, and the women dried some for winter use.
- 1959  In shrubs we have . . . wolf willow, wild rose, bullberry, highbush cranberry. . . .