red-berried, a.
1. Bearing red berries.
| 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. s.v. Sambucus, The Mountain red-berry'd Elder. 1739 Ibid. II. s.v. Casia, Red-berried Shrubcasia. 1819 Warden United States II. 242 note, Mountain maple, red-berried elder, and witch hazle. 1865 Sowerby Eng. Bot. IV. 36 Red-berried Bryony. 1891 T. Hardy Tess (1900) 32/2 The tall red-berried hedges. 1930 J. Masefield Wanderer of Liverpool 19 Red-berried blackthorn. 1972 Hilliers' Man. Trees & Shrubs 360 Sambucus..racemosa L. ‘Red-berried Elder’. A medium-sized to large shrub. |
2. Resembling red berries.
| 1881 Macm. Mag. XLIV. 345 The child with ripe red-berried lips. |