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Definition of Inkberry
1. Noun. Evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries.
Definition of Inkberry
1. Noun. Any of various unrelated plants that bear dark berries: ''Ilex glabra'', ''Ilex verticillata'', ''Scaevola plumieri'', and those of the pokeweed genus ''Phytolacca'' (especially ''Phytolacca americana''). ¹
2. Noun. The fruit of such a plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inkberry
1. a small shrub [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inkberry
Literary usage of Inkberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs by Harvard University Gray Herbarium (1917)
"How lost this great animal must feel in Yarmouth County as it breaks its way
through the thickets of inkberry and tangles of Green Briar to the lake-margins ..."
2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1878)
"inkberry ; shrubs with thickish evergreen leaves glossy above, often blackish-
dotted beneath, ... I. glabra, COMMON inkberry. Along sandy coast from Mass. ..."
3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1895)
"This larva is not very common in this locality, and feeds on various plants, such
as button-ball, inkberry and rose. I tried to locate another one in the ..."
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