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shad·bush

(shăd′bo͝osh′)

[From its being in bloom when shad are found in streams.]

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shadbush

(ˈʃædˌbʊʃ)

(Plants) another name for serviceberry¹

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shadbush - any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit

Juneberry, serviceberry, shadblow, service tree

shadberry, juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry - edible purple or red berries

Amelanchier, genus Amelanchier - North American deciduous trees or shrubs

alderleaf Juneberry, alder-leaved serviceberry, Amelanchier alnifolia - shrub or small tree of northwestern North America having fragrant creamy white flowers and small waxy purple-red fruits

Amelanchier bartramiana, Bartram Juneberry - open-growing shrub of eastern North America having pure white flowers and small waxy almost black fruits

bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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Jessica told us the tree's Latin name is Amelanchier arborea, but that it had had a variety of common names and etymologies in early North America: shadbush, because it often grows in riparian forests at the edges of rivers where the shad run.

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It's like blooming shadbush signaling the runs of American shad up East Coast rivers in spring.

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Other common names include service berry, juneberry and shadbush. The name saskatoon is derived from the Cree word misaskwatomin, meaning 'tree of much wood.' The First Nations people of the Great Plains ate the fruit fresh and also used it dry to pound into their dietary staple, pemmican.