Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having or bearing berries.
  • adjective Resembling a berry or berries.
  • adjective Bearing eggs. Used especially of egg-bearing crustaceans or fishes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with berries: as, “the berried holly,”
  • Of the form or nature of a berry; baccate.
  • Having eggs or spawn, as a female lobster or other crustacean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of berry.
  • adjective Furnished with berries.
  • adjective Consisting of a berry; baccate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective producing or bearing berries

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  • Said of a crustacean bearing eggs.

    December 28, 2010

  • Phew. For a moment there I was worried it might be a Greek lobster with gifts.

    December 28, 2010