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Definition of Sunberry
1. Noun. Improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries.
Generic synonyms: Black Nightshade, Common Nightshade, Poison-berry, Poisonberry, Solanum Nigrum
Definition of Sunberry
1. Noun. A historic heirloom shrub, ''Solanum retroflexum''. ¹
2. Noun. The dark blue-purple fruit of ''Solanum retroflexum'', often combined with sugar in desserts. ¹
3. Noun. The European black nightshade, ''Solanum nigrum''. ¹
4. Noun. The dark poisonous berry of ''Solanum nigrum''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sunberry
1. dark edible fruit [n SUNBERRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sunberry
Literary usage of Sunberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"THE sunberry-A PRODUCTION FROM THE WILD A NEW FOOD PLANT FKOM THE POTATO FAMILY
SUPPOSE that you had been trying for twenty-five years to effect a certain ..."
2. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1879)
"... of Wheeling; $700 in the sunberry Fire Insurance Company, of sunberry,
Pennsylvania, and $500 in the Franklin Insurance Company, of Wheeling. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"7 of said subdivision, east by the sunberry tract, south by the road from Hines-
... to sunberry, west by lot No. 13 of said subdivision. ..."
4. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1855)
"By late Accounts from Wyoming I hear that a Justice of Peace, a Sheriff and one
other Person as Assistant, all from sunberry, have lately been in the ..."
5. Spencer Fullerton Baird: A Biography, Including Selections from His by William Healey Dall (1915)
"From Beech Grove to sunberry, 45 miles. Sunday, /9th, In morning to Church.
In afternoon over to Northumberland. Stayed at Geo. ..."
6. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"And the prospect of producing a really notable fruit from such a union—a fruit
not unworthy of a relative of the potato, tomato, and sunberry— seems ..."
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