Barberry

Definitions

1. Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.
2. The edible fruit of these shrubs.

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Examples

“BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make⟳ a bole.”

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