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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See farkleberry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as farkleberry.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The farkleberry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries

Etymologies

  1. sparkle +‎ berry, apparently a rhyme of farkleberry. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Planted in a massed grouping, sparkleberry will add brilliant color to the winter landscape.”

    The Washington Post: New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity

  • “I put pumpkins and squash all around the house and decorated the table with kale and sorghum and sparkleberry.”

    Stuffed Acorn Squash with Cranberries and Pecans

  • “The winter gold is the most wonderful color and really is set off by the red sparkleberry too.”

    Sparkleberry And Winter Gold « Fairegarden

  • “I was leery when spending so much for the initial sparkleberry bushes, but now would snap up any of these if seen at a nursery.”

    Sparkleberry And Winter Gold « Fairegarden

  • “The streetside two are winter gold, the middle two are sparkleberry, the back two are berry heavy and the males are apollo.”

    Front Walk….sweet « Fairegarden

  • “Den he tek an lose Buh Rabbit from de tar baby, en eh tie um teh one sparkleberry bush, an git switch an eh lick um til eh tired.”

    Plantation life before emancipation,

  • “That afternoon we drove out into the woods and gathered a quantity of superb Easter lilies, papaw, sparkleberry, great fern-leaves, and cedar.”

    The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • “It had not changed as we progressed: ocean, sand, low dunes crowned with impenetrable tangles of wild bay, sparkleberry, and live-oak, with here and there a weather-twisted palmetto sprawling, and here and there the battered blades of cactus and Spanish-bayonet thrust menacingly forward; and over all the vultures, sailing, sailing -- some mere circling motes lost in the blue above, some sheering the earth so close that their swiftly sweeping shadows slanted continually across our road.”

    In Search of the Unknown

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  • moriza also called Vaccinium Arboreum. Jul 18, 2008

  • moriza I like the sound of this word, it could be really good product name. Jul 18, 2008

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