Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fruit of the common caper-bush, Capparis spinosa, or of an African species, C. decidua: sometimes used like capers.
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The next clause is best taken, as in the Revised Version, as describing the failure of appetite, which the stimulating caper-berry is unable to rouse.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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