DCHP-1 Online

juneberry † 

• 1 n. any of several bushes or shrubby trees of the genus Amelanchier.

  See also: serviceberry (def. 1)  

  • 1853  The berries . . . are known as ... "June-berries," [or] "service-berries. . . ."
  • 1928  The chief attraction . . . was along the fences and hedgerows where, in season, were strawberries, June berries . . . dew berries . . . pin cherries . . . choke-cherries . . . and the orange-red berries of the mountain ash. . . .

• 2 n. the fruit of any of these plants.

  See also: serviceberry (def. 2)  

  • 1913  . . . a grizzly bear [was] found among the Saskatoon (Juneberry) bushes. . . .
  • 1956  The serviceberries, also known as juneberries, shad-bushes, and, in the West, the Saskatoons, are deciduous species with simple alternate leaves and slender unarmed twigs.