wolfberry

wolfberry
/woolf"ber'ee, -beuh ree/, n., pl. wolfberries.
a North American shrub, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, of the honeysuckle family, having gray, hairy, egg-shaped leaves and pinkish, bell-shaped flowers, and bearing white berries.
[1825-35, Amer.; WOLF + BERRY]

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