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BERRY
berry
(noun) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
Berry, Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry
(noun) United States rock singer (born in 1931)
berry
(noun) a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
berry
(verb) pick or gather berries; “We went berrying in the summer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
berry (plural berries)
A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
(botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
A coffee bean.
One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
(slang, US, African American) A police car.
(US, slang, dated) A dollar.
Usage notes
Many fruits commonly regarded as berries, such as strawberries and raspberries, are not berries in the botanical sense, while many fruits which are berries in the botanical sense are not regarded as berries in common parlance, for example bananas and pumpkins.
Verb
berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)
To pick berries.
To bear or produce berries.
Usage notes
• Unlikely to be used to refer to commercial harvesting of berries.
Etymology 2
Noun
berry (plural berries)
(now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
Etymology 3
Noun
berry (plural berries)
(dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
An excavation; a military mine.
Etymology 4
Verb
berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)
(transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
(transitive) To thresh (grain).
Anagrams
• Bryer
Etymology 1
Variant of Bury and (in dialects with the merry, Mary marry merger) Barry. The given name is also a pet form of names beginning with Ber-.
Proper noun
Berry
A surname.
A male given name from surnames.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Berry
(rare) A female given name from English.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Berry is the 222nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 132,812 individuals. Berry is most common among White (70.66%) and Black (23.11%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Bryer
Source: Wiktionary
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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