barberry noun. ['bɑ:bǝri] Also berberry ['bǝ:-]. LME.
[Old French BERBERIS, assim. to BERRY noun¹.]
1. Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Berberis (family Berberidaceae), usu. thorny and with yellow wood; esp. B. vulgaris, bearing racemes of yellow flowers succeeded by red oblong berries. LME.

2. The berry of such a shrub. M16.

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