Shepherd i a (sheperdia)

[NL. (Nuttall, 1818), named after John Shepherd (died 1836), curator of the botanic garden at Liverpool.] A genus of apetalous plants, of the order Elæag naceæ. It is distinguished from the two other genera of the order by its opposite leaves, and by diœcio us flowers with a four-cleft, somewhat spherical or ovoid thick disk with eight lobes, the male flowers with eight stamens and the ovary in the female with one cell and one ovule. There are 3 species, all natives of North America, chiefly in the western United States-one, S. Can a dens is, with yellowish flowers and insipid reddish fruit, extending east to Vermont. They are small shrubs covered with a silvery or rusty shining scurf, and bearing petioled oblong and entire leaves, small flowers in short spikes or rаcemes, and numerous fleshy berries (each formed of the thickened calyx) persistent around the true fruit, which is a small achene. S. argentea, the buffalo-berry, also known [Cf. she - oak .] A large Australian conifer, Podocarp us er, Podocarp us elata. Sheppey argentine. See argentine and pearl side. sheppickt (shep'ik), n. [Also sheppeck; a var. of sheep - pick.] A kind of hay-fork. Nares. sheppy y (shep'i), ), n.; pl. sheppies (-iz). (-iz). [Also sheppey; cf. shepen, shippen.] A sheep-cote; a sheep-shed. I took the two finest and heaviest [sheep], and with one beneath my right arm, and the other beneath my left, I went straight home to the upper sheppey , and set them inside and fastened them. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, xlii.