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词汇 barberry
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Definition of barberry in English:

barberry

nounPlural 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.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French berberis (see berberis). The change in the ending was due to association with berry.

Rhymes

Barbary

Definition of barberry in US English:

barberry

nounˈbɑrbɛriˈbärberē
  • 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.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French berberis (see berberis). The change in the ending was due to association with berry.

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