RED-BERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-berry mean? 

• RED-BERRY (noun)
  The noun RED-BERRY has 2 senses:

1. small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries

2. North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries

  Familiarity information: RED-BERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-BERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

red-berry; redberry; Rhamnus croceus

Hypernyms ("red-berry" is a kind of...):

buckthorn (a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Actaea rubra; red-berry; red baneberry; redberry; snakeberry

Hypernyms ("red-berry" is a kind of...):

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)