barberry family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Berberidaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants having very varied leaves and flowers and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the barberry, May apple, and Oregon grape.

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Example Sentences

Podophyllum, pod-ō-fil′um, n. a genus of plants of the barberry family, the fruit edible, other parts actively cathartic.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Another singular tree noticed was a tree of the barberry family known among the Spanish-Americans as barba de tigre, or “tiger's beard.”

From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne