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Barberry

noun
(Also spelled berberry)
1.
Any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries.



Related searches:
barberry family
American barberry
European barberry
Japanese barberry
common barberry
holly-leaves barberry


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"Barberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the quaker-maid, The wild geranium holds its dew Long in the boulder's shade. Wax-red hangs the cup From the huckleberry boughs, In barberry bells the grey moths sup Or where the choke-cherry lifts high up Sweet ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... wild rose and the barberry thorn Hung out their summer pride Where now on heated pavements worn The ...
— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)
... the hawthorn and wild rose-trees in flower. From the fields vague and health-giving scents. The Voirons fringed with dazzling mists, and tints of exquisite softness over the Saleve. Work in the fields, two delightful donkeys, one pulling greedily at a hedge of barberry. Then three little children. I felt a boundless desire to caress and play with them. To be able to enjoy such leisure, these peaceful fields, fine weather, contentment; to have my two sisters with me; to rest my eyes on balmy meadows and blossoming ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... new place Mother wants to try a barberry hedge. It doesn't grow regularly, but each bush is handsome in itself because the branches droop gracefully, and the leaves are a good green and the clusters of red ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith
... made their homes in mysterious passages in this gravelly hillside; to get a nosegay of columbine for the girl who spelled against him in school and was his gentle comrade morning and evening along the river road where grew the sweet-flag and the snap-dragon and the barberry bush; to make friends with the elegant gray squirrel and the lively red squirrel and the comical chipmunk, who were not much afraid of this unarmed naturalist. They may have recognized their kinship to him, ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner


Words linked to "Barberry" :   bush, Berberis canadensis, Berberis vulgaris, Berberis, American barberry, Berberis thunbergii, genus Berberis, shrub


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