from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. a genus of North American deciduous trees or shrubs.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of ornamental dicotyledonous shrubs or trees belonging to the family Malaceæ and including about 12 species widely distributed in North America, Europe, northern Africa, and eastern and South western Asia.
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- n. North American deciduous trees or shrubs
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Fothergilla, amelanchier, styrax japonicus, paper-bark maple, viburnums of all kinds, a 'green man' from Bamberg mine's from Norwich Cathedral.
His flight in search of food had daily led him farther on, till he had discovered and explored the Rosedale Creek, with its banks of silver-birch, and Castle Frank, with its grapes and rowan berries, as well as Chester woods, where amelanchier and Virginia-creeper swung their fruit-bunches, and checkerberries glowed beneath the snow.
There is a tree in Savoy, called there the amelanchier, near of kin to this of ours.
A few maples and elms, and a fine amelanchier, appear among them, relieving their monotonous character.
The banks under the rocks were starred with primroses, and from the rocks themselves there hung with cotoneaster the large and graceful white blossoms of that limestone-loving shrub, the amelanchier.
The Silky Leaf-cutter gathers the materials for her pots, her lids and her barricades from the following plants: paliurus, hawthorn, vine, wild briar, bramble, holm-oak, amelanchier, terebinthus, sage-leaved rock-rose.
Even the botanists have given them a great variety of names, as _pyrus, mespilus, aronia, crataegus_, and _amelanchier_.
Mountains; and in the more northern latitudes these groves often consist of berry-bearing bushes -- such as wild currants, bird and choke cherries, the _amelanchier_ and _hippophae canadensis_.
Maples, sumachs, sourwood (Oxydendrum), liquidambar, azaleas, rowans and amelanchier all help to fuel the bonfire, together with nyssa and cercidiphyllum closer to the water - the latter infusing the air with caramel scent (if not, pick up a handful of the fallen leaves and inhale deeply).
(_amelanchier_), with their clusters of purplish-red fruit.