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Definition of barberry in English: barberrynounPlural barberries ˈbɑːb(ə)riˈbɑrbɛri A spiny shrub which typically has yellow flowers and red berries, frequently grown for ornamental hedging. 小檗,伏牛花 Genus Berberis, family Berberidaceae: many species Example sentencesExamples - Plants such as privet or barberry need severe pruning immediately after planting and at the beginning of the second year to make them bushy.
- And then there are the usual green plants with red berries such as hollies and barberry, and old garden roses with showy hips.
- Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
- Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows.
- Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
- Although the California fan palm is the major attraction, another rarity is the Kofa barberry, a three-foot-tall shrub known only from the Kofa Mountains and from the Ajo Mountains, farther south.
- Others feature one or several of tomatoes, garlic, barberries, grapes, pomegranates, and yoghurt.
- The barberry bushes have bright red little berries for all the world like Redhot candies.
- We cut through the Japanese barberry with clippers to get to a wet area.
- They are also attracted by the berries on the holly and some of the dogwoods and barberries around the yard, as well as the flowers with seedpods that I left for them in the main garden.
- At three o'clock Gates served dinner: onion soup followed by breast of veal delicately flavoured with nutmeg and garnished with barberries and slices of lemon.
- Rugged shrubs like barberry and potentilla give the garden permanent structure, while the rocks help protect the plants from searing winds and keep the soil from drying out.
- When plants such as barberry, grapevine, ornamental grasses, and smoke bush are in their full glory, they create a garden's final drama of the year.
- Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees.
- Dwarf barberry has reddish-purple foliage in sun.
- Branches of viburnum, holly, and barberry offer architectural grace notes and still other means for signaling the season.
- They had us taste one of the delicious syrups they made and bottled last summer, and Susanne brought out a jar of her Aprikose Berberitze jam, made with apricot and barberries.
- Using a relatively simple method to fight a potentially deadly problem, Union Pacific will plant hundreds of prickly rose bushes and barberries along its North Line this week to prevent trespassers from crossing its tracks.
- As Graham stood on the top of the wooden step ladders, trimming away at the box, and the barberry that tangled into it, he glanced down at the cat.
- I substitute dried cherries or cranberries for barberries.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French berberis (see berberis). The change in the ending was due to association with berry. Definition of barberry in US English: barberrynounˈbɑrbɛriˈbärberē A thorny shrub that bears yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries. Genus Berberis, family Berberidaceae: many species, including the American barberry (B. canadensis), with widely toothed leaves, and the European barberry (B. vulgaris), with more closely toothed leaves Example sentencesExamples - Although the California fan palm is the major attraction, another rarity is the Kofa barberry, a three-foot-tall shrub known only from the Kofa Mountains and from the Ajo Mountains, farther south.
- We cut through the Japanese barberry with clippers to get to a wet area.
- And then there are the usual green plants with red berries such as hollies and barberry, and old garden roses with showy hips.
- They are also attracted by the berries on the holly and some of the dogwoods and barberries around the yard, as well as the flowers with seedpods that I left for them in the main garden.
- Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows.
- Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees.
- Dwarf barberry has reddish-purple foliage in sun.
- The barberry bushes have bright red little berries for all the world like Redhot candies.
- I substitute dried cherries or cranberries for barberries.
- Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
- When plants such as barberry, grapevine, ornamental grasses, and smoke bush are in their full glory, they create a garden's final drama of the year.
- Using a relatively simple method to fight a potentially deadly problem, Union Pacific will plant hundreds of prickly rose bushes and barberries along its North Line this week to prevent trespassers from crossing its tracks.
- Plants such as privet or barberry need severe pruning immediately after planting and at the beginning of the second year to make them bushy.
- Branches of viburnum, holly, and barberry offer architectural grace notes and still other means for signaling the season.
- Others feature one or several of tomatoes, garlic, barberries, grapes, pomegranates, and yoghurt.
- As Graham stood on the top of the wooden step ladders, trimming away at the box, and the barberry that tangled into it, he glanced down at the cat.
- They had us taste one of the delicious syrups they made and bottled last summer, and Susanne brought out a jar of her Aprikose Berberitze jam, made with apricot and barberries.
- Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
- Rugged shrubs like barberry and potentilla give the garden permanent structure, while the rocks help protect the plants from searing winds and keep the soil from drying out.
- At three o'clock Gates served dinner: onion soup followed by breast of veal delicately flavoured with nutmeg and garnished with barberries and slices of lemon.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French berberis (see berberis). The change in the ending was due to association with berry. |