Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Botany An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary and having the whole wall fleshy, such as a grape or tomato.
- noun A small, juicy, fleshy fruit, such as a blackberry or raspberry, regardless of its botanical structure.
- noun Any of various seeds or dried kernels, as of wheat.
- noun One of the eggs of certain fishes or crustaceans, such as lobsters.
- intransitive verb To hunt for or gather berries.
- intransitive verb To bear or produce berries.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bear or produce berries.
- To gather berries: as, to go berrying.
- noun A mound; a barrow.
- noun A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
- noun An excavation; a military mine.
- To beat; give a beating to.
- To thresh (grain, etc.).
- noun In botany: In ordinary use, any small pulpy fruit, as the huckleberry, strawberry, blackberry, mulberry, cheekerberry, etc., of which only the first is a berry in the technical sense.
- noun Technically, a simple fruit in which the entire pericarp is fleshy, excepting the outer skin or epicarp, as the banana, tomato, grape, currant, etc.
- noun The dry kernel of certain kinds of grain, etc., as the berry of wheat and barley, or the coffee-berry. See cut under
wheat . - noun Something resembling a berry, as one of the ova or eggs of lobsters, crabs, or other crustaceans, or the drupe of Rhamnus infectorius, used in dyeing.
- noun A gust of wind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To bear or produce berries.
- noun A mound; a hillock.
- noun Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
- noun (Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
- noun The coffee bean.
- noun One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
- noun containing ova or spawn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
fruit , of any one of many varieties. - noun botany A soft fruit which
develops from a singleovary and containsseeds not encased inpits . - verb To
pick berries. - noun A
mound ; abarrow . - noun dialectal A
burrow , especially a rabbit's burrow. - noun An
excavation ; amilitary mine . - verb transitive To
beat ; give abeating to;thrash . - verb transitive To
thresh (grain).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pick or gather berries
- noun any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
- noun United States rock singer (born in 1931)
- noun a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The name refers to a berry called _t'kwa′ma_, and means "_like that berry_."
Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi George Gibbs 1844
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Though the term berry has a precise botanical definition, in common usage it generally refers to small fruits borne on bushes and low plants, not trees.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Though the term berry has a precise botanical definition, in common usage it generally refers to small fruits borne on bushes and low plants, not trees.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Berries: raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, anything with the word berry at the end of it.
Rinnavation Lisa Rinna 2009
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Berries: raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, anything with the word berry at the end of it.
Rinnavation Lisa Rinna 2009
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A muskeg berry is a bit of seed enclosed in a bit of water.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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Mixed berry is my favorite, though really, I love almost any pie!
Apples & Leaves Pie Top Cutter and a Giveaway! | Baking Bites 2009
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Seconds of silence passed before she fished the berry from the ice water with her tongs, then motioned for Jisuk to extend his hand.
365 tomorrows » Kathy Kachelries : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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A muskeg berry is a bit of seed enclosed in a bit of water.
LOVE OF LIFE 2010
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That and the botanical fact that the modern berry is a descendant of the diminutive and enchanting wild bilberry of British heath and moor – a forager's fruit – and one that deserves every bit of praise we can throw at it.
Tender delights Nigel Slater 2010
blacknwhite commented on the word berry
like blackberry, yum
February 25, 2009