BERRIES

Noun

berries

plural of berry

Verb

berries

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of berry

Anagrams

• Breiers, Brieres, Reibers

Source: Wiktionary


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.

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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