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beautyberry in American English (ˈbjuːtiˌberi) nounWord forms: plural -riesany of various shrubs of the genus Callicarpa, of southern North America, as C. americana, having clusters of bluish flowers and purple, berrylike fruit Word origin [1920–25, Amer.; beauty + berry, as trans. of NL Callicarpa]Examples of 'beautyberry' in a sentencebeautyberry The berries of callicarpa, or beautyberry, are an amazing, luminous, implausible shade of purple. |