Definitions for barberry

barberry bar·ber·ry

Spelling: [bahr-ber-ee, -buh-ree]
IPA: /ˈbɑrˌbɛr i, -bə ri/

Barberry is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in barberry (abberrry).

Definitions for barberry

noun

  1. a shrub of the genus Berberis, especially B. vulgaris, having yellow flowers in elongated clusters. Compare barberry family.
  2. the red, elongated, acid fruit of this shrub.

Origin of barberry

1350-1400; Middle English barbere Medieval Latin barbaris (Arabic barbāris), with -baris conformed to bere berry

Examples for barberry

The bottom of hawthorn hedges may be conveniently thickened, by putting in some plants of common sweet briar, or barberry.

If you would have the barberry, you must move the pasture itself.

If barberry jelly is not to be obtained, use some other kind.

He first rubs with sour beer, and finishes with barberry juice.

The sun was behind the cedar and barberry and catbrier banks.

“I think I can get a good store for you,” went on barberry, catching him by the arm.

"The burrs are prickly and the barberry bushes are prickly," said Hopsy.

All these forms have of course their aecidium-stage on the barberry.

barberry may still be around, and if that is so we want to surprise him.

If you really want to come to the laboratory, Mrs. barberry, we ought to be off.

Word Value for barberry
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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