Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
farkleberry .
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- noun The
farkleberry .
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- noun shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries
Etymologies
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Examples
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Planted in a massed grouping, sparkleberry will add brilliant color to the winter landscape.
New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity Joel M. Lerner 2011
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I put pumpkins and squash all around the house and decorated the table with kale and sorghum and sparkleberry.
Stuffed Acorn Squash with Cranberries and Pecans Mercedes 2009
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I put pumpkins and squash all around the house and decorated the table with kale and sorghum and sparkleberry.
Archive 2009-11-01 Mercedes 2009
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The winter gold is the most wonderful color and really is set off by the red sparkleberry too.
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I was leery when spending so much for the initial sparkleberry bushes, but now would snap up any of these if seen at a nursery.
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The streetside two are winter gold, the middle two are sparkleberry, the back two are berry heavy and the males are apollo.
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Den he tek an lose Buh Rabbit from de tar baby, en eh tie um teh one sparkleberry bush, an git switch an eh lick um til eh tired.
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That afternoon we drove out into the woods and gathered a quantity of superb Easter lilies, papaw, sparkleberry, great fern-leaves, and cedar.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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That afternoon we drove out into the woods and gathered a quantity of superb Easter lilies, papaw, sparkleberry, great fern-leaves, and cedar.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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It had not changed as we progressed: ocean, sand, low dunes crowned with impenetrable tangles of wild bay, sparkleberry, and live-oak, with here and there a weather-twisted palmetto sprawling, and here and there the battered blades of cactus and Spanish-bayonet thrust menacingly forward; and over all the vultures, sailing, sailing -- some mere circling motes lost in the blue above, some sheering the earth so close that their swiftly sweeping shadows slanted continually across our road.
moriza commented on the word sparkleberry
I like the sound of this word, it could be really good product name.
July 18, 2008
moriza commented on the word sparkleberry
also called Vaccinium Arboreum.
July 18, 2008