berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɹ.i/
enpr: bĕr'i
rhymes: -ɛɹi
homophone: bury
homophone: Berry
homophone: Barry
homophone: beary stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: berries
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Middle English berye
English berry
From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.
The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs.
Senses: glosses: A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
glosses: A coffee bean.
examples: text: The crabs carry their berries for six months.
ref: 1877, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 24, page 7:
text: That is the only restriction existing: not even small fish or fish in berry, and there are no restrictions on soft-shelled fish.
ref: 1913, Journals and Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania, page 94:
text: These crawfish are speared by the Kafirs, who bring them in to the village for sale, and who catch anything and everything either female fish in berry, or male fish in soft shell.
ref: 1914, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Provincial Council, Minutes and Ordinances - Volume 5, page 3:
text: The corals have the shape of a shrub and are green. Their berries are snow-white under water and soft. As soon as you take them out of the water, they grow hard and red.
ref: 1960, Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer, Animal and Man in Bible Lands: Supplement, page 86:
text: McCormick (1934) stated that eggs in various stages of development were found in females at the same time that they were in berry, which indicates a long egg-laying season.
ref: 1965, Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - Volume 65, page 55:
glosses: One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
qualifier: African-American
glosses: A police car.
examples: text: Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!
ref: 1921, Collier's, volume 67, page 365:
glosses: A dollar.
Synonyms: word: berry
Hypernyms: fruit
Hyponyms: word: berry § Hyponyms
word: Juneberry
word: bilberry
word: blackberry
word: blackcap raspberry
word: blackcurrant
word: blueberry
word: bog bilberry
word: cloudberry
word: cowberry
word: cranberry
word: crowberry
word: currant
word: elderberry
word: hackberry
word: highbush blueberry
word: juniper berry
word: loganberry
word: lowbush blueberry
word: mountain bearberry
word: northern bilberry
word: raspberry
word: red currant
word: serviceberry
word: tayberry
word: whitebark raspberry
word: white currant
word: wolfberry
Coordinate terms: sense: succulent fruit
word: drupe
sense: succulent fruit
word: hesperidium
sense: succulent fruit
word: pome
Derived terms: word: acai berry
word: apple-berry
word: appleberry
word: Avignon berry
word: balloon berry
word: baneberry
word: barberry
word: bayberry
word: beachberry
word: bearberry
word: beautyberry
word: berryade
word: berry alder
word: berry-bearing alder
word: berry blue
word: Berry Brow
word: berry-button
word: berry-cone
word: berryeater
word: Berry Hill
word: berrying
word: berryish
word: berryless
word: berrylike
word: berrypecker
word: berry sugar
word: berrytini
word: berry wax
word: bilberry
word: billberry
word: blackberry
word: blaeberry
word: bloodberry
word: blueberry
word: bogberry
word: boxberry
word: boysenberry
word: bramberry
word: brambleberry
word: bread-berry
word: brierberry
word: brown as a berry
word: buckberry
word: buckthorn berry
word: buffalo berry
word: buffalo-berry
word: buffaloberry
word: bulberry
word: bullberry
word: bull berry
word: bunchberry
word: cackleberry
word: candleberry
word: caper berry
word: caper-berry
word: caperberry
word: cassioberry
word: chasteberry
word: checker-berry
word: checkerberry
word: Chehalem berry
word: China-berry
word: chinaberry
word: choke-berry
word: chokeberry
word: Christmas berry
word: cloudberry
word: coffeeberry
word: coffee berry
word: coffee-berry
word: coral-berry
word: coralberry
word: cow-berry
word: cowberry
word: crackerberry
word: cranberry
word: crowberry
word: csejka berry
word: cubeb berry
word: curlew-berry
word: dabbery
word: dayberry
word: deberry
word: dangleberry
word: tangleberry
word: deerberry
word: dew-berry
word: dewberry
word: dingleberry
word: dogberry
word: Douglas berry
word: dway-berry
word: earthberry
word: earth-berry
word: egg-berry
word: elderberry
word: emu berry
word: farkleberry
word: feaberry
word: fen-berry
word: fenberry
word: fieldberry
word: fishberry
word: foxberry
word: French berry
word: fryberry
word: gallberry
word: garnetberry
word: gin berry
word: goji berry
word: goldenberry
word: golden berry
word: gooseberry
word: ground berry
word: guavaberry
word: hackberry
word: hagberry
word: heckberry
word: hegberry
word: hawthorn berry
word: heathberry
word: heath-berry
word: hedge-berry
word: hedgeberry
word: heurtleberry
word: hurtleberry
word: hillberry
word: hindberry
word: hogberry
word: holly berry
word: holly-berry
word: honeyberry
word: hound-berry
word: hound's-berry
word: houndsberry
word: huckleberry
word: in berry
word: Inca berry
word: Indian berry
word: indigoberry
word: ink-berry
word: inkberry
word: ivenberry
word: ivy-berry
word: jackalberry
word: juneberry
word: Juneberry
word: juniper berry
word: kiwi berry
word: knotberry
word: knoutberry
word: kotataberry
word: kudu berry
word: lantern berry
word: lemonade berry
word: limeberry
word: lingberry
word: lingenberry
word: lingonberry
word: logan berry
word: loganberry
word: magnolia berry
word: marble berry
word: marionberry
word: marlberry
word: marshberry
word: miracle berry
word: miraculous berry
word: moorberry
word: mooseberry
word: moss-berry
taxonomic: Empetrum nigrum
word: mossberry
word: mulberry
word: myrtle-berry
word: nannyberry
word: naseberry
word: nessberry
word: nub-berry
word: one-berry
word: orangeberry
word: oso-berry
word: partridge berry
word: partridge-berry
word: partridgeberry
word: peaberry
word: pepperberry
word: Persian berry
word: pigeon-berry
word: pigeonberry
word: poisonberry
word: poison berry
word: pokeberry
word: quinsy-berry
word: quinsyberry
word: raccoon-berry
word: racoon-berry
word: ramble-berry
word: raspberry
word: redberry
word: Rhein-berry
word: riberry
word: roan-berry
word: rowan-berry
word: roebuck-berry
word: roseberry
word: rowan berry
word: rowanberry
word: rumberry
word: salal berry
word: salalberry
word: salmon berry
word: salmonberry
word: Santiam berry
word: sapphireberry
word: Saskatoon berry
word: scald-berry
word: sea-berry
word: seaberry
word: serendipity berry
word: service-berry
word: serviceberry
word: shadberry
word: sheepberry
word: silverberry
word: silver berry
word: skoke berry
word: snakeberry
word: snowberry
word: soapberry
word: sourberry
word: sparkleberry
word: spiceberry
word: squashberry
word: squawberry
word: squaw berry
word: strawberry
word: sugar berry
word: sugar-berry
word: sugarberry
word: sunberry
word: superberry
word: tayberry
word: tea-berry
word: teaberry
word: tetterberry
word: tetter-berry
word: the berries
word: the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
word: the darker the berry, the sweeter the juice
word: thimbleberry
word: timberry
word: tummelberry
word: turkey berry
word: turquoiseberry
word: twig and berries
word: twinberry
word: tyle-berry
word: veitchberry
word: vineberry
word: vine-berry
word: wax-berry
word: waxberry
word: wheat berry
word: wheatberry
word: whimberry
word: whinberry
word: whistleberries
word: whortleberry
word: wickeyberry tree
word: wildberry
word: wineberry
word: winterberry
word: wolfberry
word: wonderberry
word: Worcesterberry
word: worcesterberry
word: yellowberry
word: yellow berry
word: yewberry
word: youngberry
word: yumberry
Related terms: word: :Category:Berries