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Definition of Inkberries
1. inkberry [n] - See also: inkberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inkberries
Literary usage of Inkberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"•where it is wild in Gloucestershire, is by the country people called, fron the
colour of its fruit, inkberries. ..."
2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"Caudal horn was green at base, and blue-purple elsewhere, the "blue-purple" being
of the exact tint of very ripe inkberries. ..."
3. The Woods and Timbers of North Carolina by Peter M. Hale, Moses Ashley Curtis (1883)
"This and the next species are evergreen shrubs, indiscriminately called by the
above name, sometimes Galls, more rarely inkberries, names apparently derived ..."
4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"... an American branching herb, with racemes of white (lowers and deep-purple
berries (inkberries or ..."
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