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# barberry

«barberry» in Mova's school dictionary: **a prickly bush with small yellow flowers and red berries…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (barberries)

### meaning for a pupil

A barberry is a prickly bush with small yellow flowers and red berries that taste sour, often grown as a hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barberry/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories the barberry is a thorny bush growing by doors and in the wild hills

### examples

- The hedge was full of barberry bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barberry/#x1)
- Red barberries grew along the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barberry/#x2)
- The sheep avoided the prickly barberry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barberry/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barberry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barberry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.