BARBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barberry mean? 

• BARBERRY (noun)
  The noun BARBERRY has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries

  Familiarity information: BARBERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("barberry" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "barberry"):

American barberry; Berberis canadensis (deciduous shrub of eastern North America whose leaves turn scarlet in autumn and having racemes of yellow flowers followed by ellipsoid glossy red berries)

Berberis vulgaris; common barberry; European barberry (upright deciduous European shrub widely naturalized in United States having clusters of juicy berries)

Berberis thunbergii; Japanese barberry (compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries; widespread in cultivation especially for hedges)

Holonyms ("barberry" is a member of...):

Berberis; genus Berberis (large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds)