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BERRIED
berried, baccate, bacciferous
(adjective) producing or bearing berries
BERRY
berry
(verb) pick or gather berries; “We went berrying in the summer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
berried
simple past tense and past participle of berry
Adjective
berried (comparative more berried, superlative most berried)
Bearing berries.
Consisting of a berry; baccate.
Anagrams
• briered
Source: Wiktionary
Ber"ried, a.
Definition: Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.
BERRY
Ber"ry, n.; pl. Berries. Etym: [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.]
1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.]
Definition: To bear or produce berries.
Ber"ry, n. Etym: [AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill.]
Definition: A mound; a hillock. W. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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