gallberry
IPA: gˈɔɫbɛri
noun
- Either of two forms of holly whose nectar is used by bees to make a mild form of honey.
gall-berry
IPA: gˈɔɫbɛri
noun
- evergreen holly of eastern north america with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries
Examples of "gallberry" in Sentences
Examples of "gall-berry" in Sentences
- The leaves and berries of gall-berry bush made a good black much used by hatters and weavers.
- Wool is dyed black with a mixture of gall-berry leaves and sumac berries; for red they use a moss which they find growing on the rocks, and which may be the lichen _Roccella tinctoria_ or dyer's-moss; also madder root, and sassafras bark.
- A small canal constructed at private expense extended nearly the whole distance and afforded great facilities in the execution of a survey which otherwise must have progressed very slowly, from the necessity of penetrating an all-pervasive and very dense underwood of gall-berry, fetter bushes and brambles mixed occasionally with reeds.