Berry

Ber·ry  (b-r)

A historical region and former province of central France. Purchased by the French crown in 1101, it became an independent duchy in 1360 and reverted to the crown in 1601.

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Ber·ry  (br), Charles Edward Anderson Known as "Chuck." Born 1926.

American guitarist, singer, and songwriter considered among the earliest and most influential rock 'n' roll performers.

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ber·ry  (br)

n. pl. ber·ries

1. Botany An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary and having the whole wall fleshy, such as the grape or tomato.

2. A small, juicy, fleshy fruit, such as a blackberry or raspberry, regardless of its botanical structure.

3. Any of various seeds or kernels, as of dried wheat.

4. The small, dark egg of certain crustaceans or fishes.

intr.v. ber·ried, ber·ry·ing, ber·ries

1. To hunt for or gather berries: went berrying in July.

2. To bear or produce berries.

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[Middle English berye, from Old English berie; see bh-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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berry

Noun

pl -ries a small round fruit that grows on bushes or trees and is often edible [Old English berie]

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berry  (br)

1. A simple fruit that has many seeds in a fleshy pulp. Grapes, bananas, tomatoes, and blueberries are berries. Compare drupepome See more at simple fruit.

2. A seed or dried kernel of certain kinds of grain or other plants such as wheat, barley, or coffee.

Usage Cucumbers and tomatoes aren't usually thought of as berries, but to a botanist they are in fact berries, while strawberries and raspberries are not. In botany, a berry is a fleshy kind of simple fruit consisting of a single ovary that has multiple seeds. Other true berries besides cucumbers and tomatoes are bananas, oranges, grapes, and blueberries. Many fruits that are popularly called berries have a different structure and thus are not true berries. For example, strawberries and raspberries are aggregate fruits, developed from multiple ovaries of a single flower. The mulberry is not a true berry either. It is a multiple fruit, like the pineapple, and is made up of the ovaries of several individual flowers.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh European blueberry, whortleberry, bilberry - blue-black berries similar to American blueberries huckleberry - blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States blueberry - sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil cranberry - very tart red berry used for sauce or juice lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry, cowberry, lingonberry - tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller currant - any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams blackberry - large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus boysenberry - large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries dewberry - blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes loganberry - large red variety of the dewberry raspberry - red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries shadberry, juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry - edible purple or red berries strawberry - sweet fleshy red fruit hackberry, sugarberry - small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States persimmon - orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe acerola, barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, surinam cherry - acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C mulberry - sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus berry - a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
	2.	berry - a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves cranberry - very tart red berry used for sauce or juice baneberry - a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant bacca, simple fruit - an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry
	3.	Berry - United States rock singer (born in 1931) Charles Edward Berry, Chuck Berry
Verb	1.	berry - pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer" cull, pick, pluck - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" blackberry - pick or gather blackberries; "The children went blackberrying"

Translations

berry [ˈbɛrɪ] n → baya

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berry [ˈbɛrɪ] n → baie f

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berry [ˈbɛrɪ] n → Beere f

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berry [ˈbɛrɪ] n → bacca

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berry

n berry [ˈberi]

a kind of small (often juicy) fruit holly berry; ripe strawberries; Those berries are poisonous. bessie ثَمَرَةٌ عِنَبِيَّه дребен безкостилков плод bobule, plod bær die Beere μούρο baya mari میوۀ بی هسته و گوشتالو marja baie תוּת, פֶּטֶל, אוּכמָנִיוֹת וכו' झड़बेरी bobica bogyó sejenis buah ber bacca いちご類 딸기류의 과실 uoga akvifolija, akmeņozols buah beri bes bær jagoda baga boabă ягода bobuľa jagoda bobičavo voće bär ผลเบอร์รี่ küçük taneli meyve 漿果 ягода پیر ، گوندنی قسم کا پھل quả beri 浆果