Berry
['berɪ] or ['bɛri]
Definition
(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'.
Inputed by Angela--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Inputed by DeWitt
Definition
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.
Typist: Zamenhof
Examples
- Not many an English leaf or berry that I couldn't name. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I berry much spect Missis be anxious 'bout Jerry. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Berry nice man, dat Mas'r Jones was. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Suddenly, the atmosphere was impregnated with the odour of the Indian berry, which grew in immense quantities around me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- From the rich cluster that filled a small basket held in her hand she severed a berry and offered it to his lips. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The green wilderness nurses her, and becomes to her a mother; feeds her on juicy berry, on saccharine root and nut. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My face, neck, and hands, from unaccustomed exposure to the air and sun, were burnt to a berry-brown. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They saw the golden lights of the hotel glowing out in the night of snow-silence, small in the hollow, like a cluster of yellow berries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They were comforted by seeing some birds, and later on by finding a pole worked with tools, and a branch with strange berries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It moved slowly, but it enlightened my path; and I again went out in search of berries. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We must get some berries, or Clym will never believe in our preparations. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They subsisted on shell fish, putrid whale's blubber, or a few tasteless berries and fungi. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The terrestrial species is confined to the centra l part of the group; it is smaller than the aquatic species, and feeds on cactus, leaves of trees, and berries. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We have enough berries now, I think, and we had better take them home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- After being on the train for several months, I started two stores in Port Huron--one for periodicals, and the other for vegetables, butter, and berries in the season. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I wants to go there and be berried. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Dorothea drove along between the berried hedgerows and the shorn corn-fields, not seeing or hearing anything around. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checked by Alissa