Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs of the genus Berberis, having leaves that are often clustered, small yellow flowers, and red, orange, or blackish berries. They are grown as ornamentals or hedge plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shrub of the genus Berberis, B. vulgaris, bearing racemes of yellow ill-smelling flowers, which produce red elongated berries of a pleasantly acid flavor, a native of Europe and extensively naturalized in New England.
- noun The fruit of this shrub.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields.
Berberis vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thorny shrub that bears yellowflowers and red or blue-blackberries .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Adjacent to the reserve's mowed fields are two "old fields" which have succeeded to shrubs, such as barberry, honeysuckle, bayberry and pasture rose.
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If you forgo a fence, thorned and prickly bushes such as barberry, hollies and rose bushes will discourage some dogs.
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Moving across the front from the barberry barrier can be seen the cherry tree in the middle, underplanted with a variety of winterberry hollies, Ilex verticillata culitvars.
No Mow « Fairegarden 2010
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But as we pass by, it is noticed that there is something in the barberry bushes that is out of place.
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She recalled a photo of the wave of pink annuals Ronda had planted between Pfitzer junipers and low barberry shrubs.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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She recalled a photo of the wave of pink annuals Ronda had planted between Pfitzer junipers and low barberry shrubs.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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• Berberine -- This potent yellow plant extract comes from goldenseal and barberry
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She recalled a photo of the wave of pink annuals Ronda had planted between Pfitzer junipers and low barberry shrubs.
In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010
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The common barberry and black stem rust (Farmers 'bulletin/United States Department of Agriculture) by E.
82 year old black farmer arrested on terroristic threatening charges 2009
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We pass the field with bright red barberry bushes.
The True Gift Patricia MacLachlan 2009
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