Definitions for: Berry


[n] any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
[n] United States rock singer (born in 1931)
[n] a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
[v] pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"



Webster (1913) Definition: Ber"ry, n.; pl. Berries. [OE. berie, AS. berie,
berige; akin to D. bes, G. beere, OS. and OHG. beri, Icel.
ber, Sw. b["a]r, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat.]
1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry,
huckleberry, etc.

2. (Bot.) 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. --Travis.

In berry, containing ova or spawn.


Ber"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Berried; p. pr. & vb. n.
Berrying.]
To bear or produce berries.


Ber"ry, n. [AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill.]
A mound; a hillock. --W. Browne.

Synonyms: Charles Edward Berry, Chuck Berry

See Also: acerola, bacca, baneberry, barbados cherry, berry, berry, bilberry, blackberry, blackberry, blueberry, boxberry, boysenberry, checkerberry, cowberry, cranberry, cranberry, cull, currant, dewberry, edible fruit, European blueberry, fruit, hackberry, huckleberry, juneberry, lingonberry, loganberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry, mulberry, persimmon, pick, pluck, raspberry, rock star, saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, simple fruit, spiceberry, strawberry, sugarberry, surinam cherry, teaberry, West Indian cherry, whortleberry, wintergreen

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