The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oregon grape \Or"e*gon grape`\ ([o^]r"[-e]*g[o^]n gr[=a]p`). (Bot.) An evergreen species of barberry ( Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
Usage examples of "oregon grape".
The stretch east past the old orchard was bushy and overgrown: weeds and grass that rose stirrup-high or better, a new growth of yarrow rank and tall through last year's dead brown stalks, shrubby Oregon grape with spiny hollylike leaves and clusters of yellow flowers.
We all ended up soaking wet, with Oregon Grape stains on our Dockers by the time we got to the library, and on the way back we read the Riot Act and said that Bug had to stop geeking out and learn to enculturate, and that for his own good he should take the path - and he agreed.