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Barberry  n.  (Also spelled berberry)  (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.





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"Barberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rose-bushes ridged in down, and at last to his favorite winter nook, a thicket of black alders freighted with a wealth of berries. How crimson they were amid the white quiet of the garden! And the brightly colored fruit of the barberry flamed forth from a snowy bush like the ...
— When the Yule Log Burns - A Christmas Story • Leona Dalrymple


Words linked to "Barberry" :   common barberry, Japanese barberry, holly-leaves barberry, Berberis, genus Berberis, Berberis canadensis, shrub, bush, Berberis thunbergii, Berberis vulgaris, barberry family, American barberry


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