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Barberry

A shrub of the genus Berberis common along roadsides and in neglected fields Berberis vulgaris is the species best known its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers The bark dyes a fine yellow esp the bark of the root...

Barrenwort

An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family Epimedium alpinum having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific...

Berberine

An alkaloid obtained as a bitter yellow substance from the root of the barberry gold thread and other plants...

Berberry

See Barberry...

mahonia

The Oregon grape a species of barberry Berberis Aquifolium often cultivated for its hollylike foliage...

Oregon grape

An evergreen species of barberry Berberis Aquifolium of Oregon and California also its roundish blue black berries...

Podophyllum

A genus of herbs of the Barberry family having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower There are two species the American Podophyllum peltatum or May apple the Himalayan Podophyllum Emodi...

Vegetable

Vegetable, 'Vegetables' understood in common parlance are not products of manufacture unless we say that agriculture is an industry for certain purposes and vegetables are products of that industry, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, (1992) 1 SCC 418: AIR 1992 SC 224.The word 'vegetables' does not include Pan (betel leaves). Therefore betel leaves are taxable under the provisions of the Act, Ram Bux Chaturbhuj v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1963 SC 351 (352). [Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1954 (29 of 1954), s. 4]Vegetable, cannot be given the comprehensive meaning as it bears in natural history, and it must be construed in popular sense to denote such classes of vegetable matter which are grown in kitchen gardens or in a farm and are used for table, State of West Bengal v. Washi Ahmed, AIR 1977 SC 1638: (1977) 2 SCC 246: 1977 SCC (Tax) 278: (1977) 3 SCR 149: (1977) 2 SCJ 222: 39 STC 378: (1977) 1 SCWR 604: (1977) UJ (SC) 268: (1977) Tax LR 2042: (1977) UPTC 296; Ramavtar v. Assistan...

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