Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Shepherdia
Shep·her′di·a (shĕp·hẽr′dĭ·ȧ), 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.