oregon grape Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries
    Mahonia nervosa.
  2. noun ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries
    mountain grape; holly-leaves barberry; Mahonia aquifolium; Oregon holly grape; hollygrape.

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Or"e*gon grape`
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

Webster 1913