Search Result for "berry": pronunciation
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NOUN (3)

1. any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves;

2. a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry);

3. United States rock singer (born in 1931);
[syn: Berry, Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry]


VERB (1)

1. pick or gather berries;
- Example: "We went berrying in the summer"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Berry \Ber"ry\, n.; pl. Berries. [OE. berie, AS. berie,
   berige; akin to D. bes, G. beere, OS. and OHG. beri, Icel.
   ber, Sw. b[aum]r, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat.]
   1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry,
      huckleberry, etc.
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   2. (Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent
      throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as
      the currant, grape, blueberry.
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   3. The coffee bean.
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   4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish. --Travis.
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   In berry, containing ova or spawn.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Berry \Ber"ry\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Berried; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Berrying.]
   To bear or produce berries.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Berry \Ber"ry\, n. [AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill.]
   A mound; a hillock. --W. Browne.
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Berry, AL (town, FIPS 5932)
  Location: 33.66318 N, 87.60769 W
  Population (1990): 1218 (527 housing units)
  Area: 29.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 35546
Berry, IL
  Zip code(s): 62563
Berry, KY (city, FIPS 5968)
  Location: 38.52039 N, 84.38421 W
  Population (1990): 240 (103 housing units)
  Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 41003


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "berry":
   Catawba, Persian melon, Valencia orange, acorn, akee,
   alligator pear, ananas, apple, apricot, avocado, banana, bearberry,
   bilberry, bird seed, blackberry, cacao, candleberry, canistel,
   cantaloupe, capulin, casaba, checkerberry, cherimoya, cherry,
   citrange, citron, citrus, citrus fruit, civet fruit, crab apple,
   cranberry, currant, custard apple, damson, date, dewberry,
   elderberry, feijoa, fig, flaxseed, fruit, gooseberry, grain, grape,
   grapefruit, guanabana, guava, hayseed, honeydew, huckleberry,
   icaco, ilama, imbu, jaboticaba, jackfruit, jujube, kernel, kumquat,
   lemon, lime, lingonberry, linseed, litchi, loganberry, loquat,
   mammee apple, mandarin orange, mango, mangosteen, manzanilla,
   marang, mayapple, medlar, melon, mulberry, muscadine, muscat,
   muscatel, muskmelon, navel orange, nectarine, nut, nutmeg melon,
   olive, orange, papaw, papaya, passion fruit, peach, pear,
   persimmon, pineapple, pip, pippin, pit, plantain, plum, plumcot,
   pomegranate, prune, quince, raisin, rambutan, raspberry,
   red currant, seed, stone, strawberry, sugar apple, sugarplum,
   sweetsop, tangelo, tangerine, ugli fruit