Definition of "berberry" [ber•ber•ry]

• Alternative form of barberry. (noun)

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• "De Bary proved that the old idea of the farmer, that the rust is very apt to appear on wheat growing in the neighborhood of berberry bushes, was no fable; but on the contrary, that the yellow _Æcidium_ on the berberry is a phase in the life history of the fungus causing the wheat rust."
• "_Musa_, _Artocarpus_, &c. Some of the cultivated varieties of the grape and of the berberry produce no seeds."
• "The bark and roots of the berberry are used in the East to dye yellow; the color is best when boiled in ley."