DCHP-1 Online

shadbush Esp. Maritimes

• n. any of several bushes or shrubby trees of the genus Amelanchier. See also 1932 quote.

  See also: serviceberry (def. 1)  

  • 1822  (1928)  On the skirts of the forest, and of the marshes, are found shadbush, and the red choke-berry. . . .
  • 1917  (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.
  • 1932  On the eastern side of the Rockies this June-berry is called the Saskatoon-berry; on the Atlantic shores it is the shad-bush.