Definition of "snowberry" []

• Any of various shrubs of the genus Symphoricarpos, especially S. albus of North America, having small pinkish flowers and white berries. (noun)
• Any of various tropical American shrubs or vines of the genus Chiococca, having white globular fruit and small yellow or white flowers clustered in lateral racemes. (noun)

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• "I stopped beside a scrubby little bush we children called the snowberry, the fruit of which was reputed to be poisonous."
• "The snowberry is a native of North America, where it grows on dry and stony banks from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast."
• "MOLLY AND ANTONIO MANZANARES RANCH SHEEP MUCH AS THEIR ANCESTORS DID, riding horseback to move their flock from one high desert pasture to another to graze on lush mountain grasses and mountain mahogany and snowberry."