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Definition of Redberry
1. Noun. Small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries.
2. Noun. North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries.
Generic synonyms: Baneberry, Cohosh, Herb Christopher
Definition of Redberry
1. Noun. (Canada Labrador) The lingonberry or cowberry, ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redberry
Literary usage of Redberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1874)
"redberry Creek flows into a large salt lake known as redberry or Big Salt Lake.
At 5 pm we reached Bear Paddling Lake, and camped on the north side of it, ..."
2. Gardening in California, Landscape and Flower: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1914)
"The redberry delights in a sunny situation and a loose rocky soil. Propagate by
seeds sown one-eighth of an inch deep in open ground in the Fall; ..."
3. Report in Reference to the Canadian Pacific Railway by Sandford Fleming (1879)
"For first two miles soil very light and sandy; at Creek on-prairie extensive
grassy swamps ; thence 16 miles over very hilly and broken country to redberry ..."
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