WINEBERRY

makomako, New Zealand wine berry, wineberry, Aristotelia serrata, Aristotelia racemosa

(noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine

wineberry, Rubus phoenicolasius

(noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

wineberry (plural wineberries)

The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.

Its edible fruit, resembling a raspberry.

The tree Aristotelia serrata, endemic to New Zealand, with broad rose-coloured leaves.

Its edible fruit, a small black berry.

Source: Wiktionary


Wine"ber`ry, n. (Bot.) (a) The red currant. (b) The bilberry. (c) A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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