Berry

['berɪ] or ['bɛri]

解釋/意思:

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

(noun.) United States rock singer (born in 1931).

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

(verb.) pick or gather berries; 'We went berrying in the summer'.

安吉拉校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

(n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

(n.) The coffee bean.

(n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

(v. i.) To bear or produce berries.

(n.) A mound; a hillock.

德威特編輯

解釋/意思:

n. a popular term for any small succulent fruit but restricted in botanical language to simple fruits with pericarp succulent throughout whether developed from superior (grape potato bitternut belladonna bryony asparagus tomato) or more commonly inferior ovary (gooseberry currant barberry bilberry &c.)—thus strictly the strawberry raspberry blackberry are not berries.—v.i. to come into berry to swell.—adj. Ber′ried bearing berries.

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