Berry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Botany An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary and having the whole wall fleshy, such as the grape or tomato.
  • n. A small, juicy, fleshy fruit, such as a blackberry or raspberry, regardless of its botanical structure.
  • n. Any of various seeds or kernels, as of dried wheat.
  • n. The small, dark egg of certain crustaceans or fishes.
  • verb-intransitive. To hunt for or gather berries: went berrying in July.
  • verb-intransitive. To bear or produce berries.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small fruit, of any one of many varieties.
  • n. A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
  • v. To pick berries.
  • n. A mound; a barrow.
  • n. A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
  • n. An excavation; a military mine.
  • v. To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
  • v. To thresh (grain).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
  • n. A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
  • n. The coffee bean.
  • n. One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
  • verb-intransitive. To bear or produce berries.
  • n. A mound; a hillock.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. Technically, a simple fruit in which the entire pericarp is fleshy, excepting the outer skin or epicarp, as the banana, tomato, grape, currant, etc.
  • n. The dry kernel of certain kinds of grain, etc., as the berry of wheat and barley, or the coffee-berry. See cut under wheat.
  • n. 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.
  • To bear or produce berries.
  • To gather berries: as, to go berrying.
  • n. A mound; a barrow.
  • n. A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
  • n. An excavation; a military mine.
  • To beat; give a beating to.
  • To thresh (grain, etc.).
  • n. A gust of wind.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. pick or gather berries
  • 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)
  • Verb Form
    berried    berries    berrying   
    Hypernym
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    Variant
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    Form
    berried    berrying   
    Synonym
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    mound    hillock   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arie    Azeri    Barrie    Barry    Berri    Bury    Canary    Carey    Carrie    Cary   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    grape    apple    strawberry    bean    nut    Herb    lemon    rose    mushroom    banana