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Definition of Farkleberry
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries.
Definition of Farkleberry
1. Noun. A species of ''Vaccinium'' (''Vaccinium arboreum'') native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas; taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall. ¹
2. Noun. A berry from a shrub of this species. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Farkleberry
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Farkleberry
Literary usage of Farkleberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"Box elder, winged elm, willow, with azaleas, whortleberries, farkleberry, and
the poison laurel (Kalinin ..."
2. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"farkleberry and DEERBERRY ; erect shrubs with single axillary or ... farkleberry.
Open woods from Va. and S. 111. S.; 8°-16° high, evergreen far S., ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"farkleberry. SPARKLE- BERRY. Spreading shrub or small tree, 6-25 ft. high, with
glabrous or somewhat pubescent branchlets: Ivs. 1-2 in. long, evergreen in ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... tenacious of life and bears pruning well; propagated from suckers, cuttings
and seeds, which last it bears freely. 24. arboreum, Marshall. farkleberry. ..."
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