barberry's Usage Examples:

These teleutospores remain inactive on the straw until spring, when they germinate in manure heaps or on moist ground and produce minute sporidia, which are conveyed by air currents to the alternate host, in this case a barberry.

In due time the fungus, known as Aecidium Berberidis, appears on the barberry leaves in the form of small cluster-cups on aecidia, each of which is filled with chains of orange-coloured aecidiospores.

) penetrate a few very stunted oaks (Quercus subalpina), the junipers already mentioned and a barberry (Berberis cretica), which sometimes spreads into close thickets.

, or a considerable amount may be produced (clematis, barberry, ivy).

The barberry's brilliant fruit was likewise food for my eyes merely; but I collected a small store of wild apples for coddling, which the proprietor and travellers had overlooked.

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

In some leaves, as in the barberry, the veins are hardened, producing spines without any parenchyma.

we have wild olive, species of rock-rose, wild privet, acacias and mimosas, barberry and Zizyphus; and in the eastern ramifications of the chain, Chamaerops humilis (which is applied to a variety of useful purposes), Bignonia or trumpet flower, sissu, Salvadora persica, verbena, acanthus, varieties of Gesnerae.

8, is elongated, and gives off pedicels, ending in single flowers, a raceme is produced, as in currant, hyacinth and barberry.

The leaves of barberry and of some species of Astragalus, and the stipules of the false acacia (Robinia) are spiny.

The pollen is set free by the opening (dehiscence) of the anther, generally by means of longitudinal slits, but sometimes by pores, as in the heath family (Ericaceae), or by valves, as in the barberry.

Synonyms:

genus Berberis, Berberis, bush, American barberry, European barberry, shrub, common barberry, Berberis thunbergii, Berberis vulgaris, Berberis canadensis, Japanese barberry,

Antonyms:

fauna, superior,