Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word red-berried.

Examples

  • There were spiky conkers ripening, red-berried cuckoo pint, and numerous seven-spot ladybirds to be seen, and all the way we were watched by grazing Highland cattle.

    Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

  • The dusk momentarily heightened all the colors of the countryside, lighting the land with jewels; a glowing emerald in the hollows, a lovely shadowed amethyst among the clumps of heather, and burning rubies on the red-berried rowan trees that crowned the hills.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • The sun hums down through the cotton flowers of her dress into the bell of her heart and buzzes in the honey there and couches and kisses, lazy-loving and boozed, in her red-berried breast.

    lazarus Diary Entry lazarus 2003

  • We picked our way through small groves of red-berried mountain ash and larger stands of oak.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • Without a blink or a word Jo lay down on the grass and gazed up at the red-berried yews, stretched herself subtly on her green crushed bed, and scratched her calf, and waited.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • Additional undergrowth of native woodland shrubs, such as New Jersey tea, red-berried elder and blueberry for the Eastern States, will augment the naturalness of the scene and help to conserve the moisture in the soil.

    Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison

  • At length trees and shrubs were left behind, except the red-berried juniper, which grows at a higher elevation here than any other bush, and flourishes in the clefts of the rocks, where nothing else will exist.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • Five minutes afterwards the Americans found themselves seated at a table garlanded with red-berried holly, trailing ivy, and pearl-eyed mistletoe, and surrounded by a round dozen of Farrars, including several youngsters whose general place was in schoolroom or nursery, but who, even to a tot of three, were promoted to dine in splendor on Christmas

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

  • A great bowl of pink and yellow chrysanthemums from Brandon's old garden and trailing cedar and ferns and red-berried holly added to the cheer.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • There a red-berried bryony had twisted itself among the new shoots of a vine, which, seeking in vain a firmer support, had reciprocally entwined its tendrils around its companion, and, mingling their feeble stalks, and their not very dissimilar leaves, they mutually drew each other upward, as often happens with the weak, who take one another for their stay.

    Chapter XXXIII 1909

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.