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berry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun berry has 3 senses
- berry(n = noun.food) Array - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves; Array is a kind of edible fruit
- berry(n = noun.plant) Array - a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry); Array has parts: berry
- berry(n = noun.person) charles edward berry, chuck berry - United States rock singer (born in 1931); Array is a kind of rock star
has particulars: bilberry, european blueberry, whortleberry, huckleberry, blueberry, boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen, cranberry, cowberry, lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry, currant, blackberry, boysenberry, dewberry, loganberry, raspberry, juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, strawberry, hackberry, sugarberry, persimmon, acerola, barbados cherry, surinam cherry, west indian cherry, mulberry
is a part of berry
Derived form verb berry1
has particulars: cranberry, baneberry, bacca, simple fruit
is a kind of fruit
Derived form verb berry1
Verb berry has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
berry, n. [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.].
- Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. [1913 Webster]
- A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. [1913 Webster]
- The coffee bean. [1913 Webster]
- One of the ova or eggs of a fish. Travis. [1913 Webster]
berry, v. i.
To bear or produce berries. [1913 Webster]
berry, n. [AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill.].
A mound; a hillock. W. Browne. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
berry, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 any small roundish juicy fruit without a stone.
2 Bot. a fruit with its seeds enclosed in a pulp (e.g. a banana, tomato, etc.).
3 any of various kernels or seeds (e.g. coffee bean etc.).
4 a fish egg or roe of a lobster etc.
--v.intr. (-ies, -ied)
1 (usu. as berrying n.) go gathering berries.
2 form a berry; bear berries.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 any small roundish juicy fruit without a stone.
2 Bot. a fruit with its seeds enclosed in a pulp (e.g. a banana, tomato, etc.).
3 any of various kernels or seeds (e.g. coffee bean etc.).
4 a fish egg or roe of a lobster etc.
--v.intr. (-ies, -ied)
1 (usu. as berrying n.) go gathering berries.
2 form a berry; bear berries.
Derivative
berried adj. (also in comb.).
Etymology
OE berie f. Gmc
THESAURUS
berry
Catawba, Persian melon, Valencia orange, acorn, akee, alligator pear, ananas, apple, apricot, avocado, banana, bearberry, bilberry, bird seed, blackberry, cacao, candleberry, canistel, cantaloupe, capulin, casaba, checkerberry, cherimoya, cherry, citrange, citron, citrus, citrus fruit, civet fruit, crab apple, cranberry, currant, custard apple, damson, date, dewberry, elderberry, feijoa, fig, flaxseed, fruit, gooseberry, grain, grape, grapefruit, guanabana, guava, hayseed, honeydew, huckleberry, icaco, ilama, imbu, jaboticaba, jackfruit, jujube, kernel, kumquat, lemon, lime, lingonberry, linseed, litchi, loganberry, loquat, mammee apple, mandarin orange, mango, mangosteen, manzanilla, marang, mayapple, medlar, melon, mulberry, muscadine, muscat, muscatel, muskmelon, navel orange, nectarine, nut, nutmeg melon, olive, orange, papaw, papaya, passion fruit, peach, pear, persimmon, pineapple, pip, pippin, pit, plantain, plum, plumcot, pomegranate, prune, quince, raisin, rambutan, raspberry, red currant, seed, stone, strawberry, sugar apple, sugarplum, sweetsop, tangelo, tangerine, ugli fruit
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