berry
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
- a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
- United States rock singer (born in 1931)Synonyms: Chuck BerryCharles Edward Berry
Verb (1)
- pick or gather berries“We went berrying in the summer”
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ber′ry (…), noun; pl. Berries.
Origin: OE. berie, AS. berie, berige; akin to D. bes, G. beere, OS. and OHG. beri, Icel. ber, Sw. bär, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat.
1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
2. Botany A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
3. The coffee bean.
4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish. John Travis
In berry, containing ova or spawn.
Ber′ry intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Berried (…); present participle & verbal noun Berrying.]
To bear or produce berries.
Ber′ry noun
Origin: AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill.
A mound; a hillock. William Browne
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54