DCHP-1 Online
silverberry (plant) 
n. a silvery-gray shrub, Elaeagnus argentea, common in the west.
See also: wolf-willow silver(y) oleaster
- 1880 The banks . . . are green with grass, kinnikinnick, juniper . . . and the beautiful silverberry plant.
- 1955 Closely related to the Silverberry and common everywhere in the Rockies is a thornless and highly ornamental shrub known locally as Soapberry, but sometimes called Buffalo-berry.
- 1880 The banks . . . are green with grass, kinnikinnick, juniper . . . and the beautiful silverberry plant.