shepherdia

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See also: Shepherdia

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

shepherdia (plural shepherdias)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Shepherdia of shrubs with silvery scurfy leaves.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shepherdia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)