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Shepherdia

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Shep‐her″di‐a (?), n.; pl.Shepherdias (#). [NL. So called from John Shepherd, an English botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elæagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.