japanese barberry

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   compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries; widespread in cultivation especially for hedges

   SynonymsBerberis thunbergii

   Broaderbarberry

Questions about japanese barberry

What does japanese barberry mean?

japanese barberry means "compact deciduous shrub having persistent red berries; widespread in cultivation especially for hedges".

What is another word for japanese barberry?

Close synonyms include Berberis thunbergii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is japanese barberry a common word?

japanese barberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.