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beautyberry

[ byoo-tee-ber-ee ]

noun

, plural beau·ty·ber·ries.
  1. any of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of beautyberry1

1920–25, Americanism; beauty + berry, as translation of New Latin Callicarpa

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