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In some senses, barberry is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.
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.
The edible fruit of these shrubs.
name
Obsolete form of Beruwala.