berry
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
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.
Inflected forms:
form: berries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: berries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: berrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: berried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: berried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
pos: noun
gloss: A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
pos: noun
gloss: A coffee bean.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
pos: noun
examples: The crabs carry their berries for six months.
That is the only restriction existing: not even small fish or fish in berry, and there are no restrictions on soft-shelled fish.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: A police car.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Today was like one of those fly dreams / Didn't even see a berry flashin' those high beams
gloss: A dollar.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!
gloss: To pick berries.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.
Partly because I always itched and prickled in a berry patch I may have been disinclined to nibble as I worked; but largely I think it was because I berried under a master strategist and I wanted to see how well we could coordinate our efforts...
gloss: To bear or produce berries.
pos: verb
Synonyms: berry
Related words: :Category:Berries
Derived words: acai berry
appleberry
apple-berry
Avignon berry
balloon berry
baneberry
barberry
bayberry
beachberry
bearberry
beautyberry
berryade
berry alder
berry-bearing alder
berry blue
Berry Brow
berry-button
berry catchfly
berry-cone
berryeater
Berry Hill
berryish
Berry Jerry
berryless
berrylike
Berry Park
berrypecker
berry sugar
berrytini
berry wax
bilberry
billberry
blackberry
blaeberry
bloodberry
blueberry
bogberry
boxberry
boysenberry
bramberry
brambleberry
bread-berry
brierberry
brown as a berry
buckberry
buckthorn berry
buffalo berry
buffalo-berry
buffaloberry
bulberry
bullberry
bull berry
bunchberry
cackleberry
candleberry
caperberry
caper berry
caper-berry
cassioberry
chasteberry
checker-berry
checkerberry
Chehalem berry
China-berry
chinaberry
choke-berry
chokeberry
Christmas berry
cloudberry
coffeeberry
coffee berry
coffee-berry
coral-berry
coralberry
cow-berry
cowberry
crackerberry
cranberry
crowberry
csejka berry
cubeb berry
curlew-berry
dabbery
dayberry
deberry
dangleberry
tangleberry
deerberry
dew-berry
dewberry
dingleberry
dogberry
Douglas berry
dway-berry
earthberry
earth-berry
egg-berry
elderberry
emu berry
farkleberry
feaberry
fenberry
fen-berry
fieldberry
fishberry
foxberry
French berry
fryberry
gallberry
garnetberry
gin berry
goji berry
golden berry
goldenberry
gooseberry
ground berry
guavaberry
hackberry
hagberry
heckberry
hegberry
hawthorn berry
heathberry
heath-berry
hedge-berry
hedgeberry
heurtleberry
hurtleberry
hillberry
hindberry
hogberry
holly-berry
holly berry
honeyberry
hound-berry
hound's-berry
houndsberry
huckleberry
in berry
Inca berry
Indian berry
indigoberry
ink-berry
inkberry
ivenberry
ivy-berry
jackalberry
juneberry
Juneberry
juniper berry
kiwi berry
knotberry
knoutberry
kotataberry
kudu berry
lantern berry
lemonade berry
limeberry
lingberry
lingenberry
lingonberry
logan berry
loganberry
magnolia berry
marble berry
marionberry
marlberry
marshberry
miracle berry
miraculous berry
moorberry
mooseberry
moss-berry
mossberry
mulberry
myrtle-berry
nannyberry
naseberry
nessberry
nub-berry
one-berry
orangeberry
oso-berry
partridge berry
partridge-berry
partridgeberry
peaberry
pepperberry
Persian berry
pigeon-berry
pigeonberry
poisonberry
poison berry
pokeberry
quinsy-berry
quinsyberry
raccoon-berry
racoon-berry
ramble-berry
raspberry
redberry
Rhein-berry
riberry
roan-berry
rowan-berry
roebuck-berry
roseberry
rowanberry
rowan berry
rumberry
salalberry
salal berry
salmon berry
salmonberry
Santiam berry
sapphireberry
Saskatoon berry
scald-berry
sea-berry
seaberry
serendipity berry
service-berry
serviceberry
shadberry
sheepberry
silverberry
silver berry
skoke berry
snakeberry
snowberry
soapberry
sourberry
sparkleberry
spiceberry
squashberry
squaw berry
squawberry
strawberry
sugar berry
sugar-berry
sugarberry
sunberry
superberry
tayberry
tea-berry
teaberry
tetter-berry
tetterberry
the berries
the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
the darker the berry, the sweeter the juice
thimbleberry
timberry
tummelberry
turkey berry
turquoiseberry
twig and berries
twinberry
tyle-berry
veitchberry
vine-berry
vineberry
wax-berry
waxberry
wheatberry
wheat berry
whimberry
whinberry
whistleberries
whortleberry
wickeyberry tree
wildberry
wineberry
winterberry
wolfberry
wonderberry
worcesterberry
Worcesterberry
yellow berry
yellowberry
yewberry
youngberry
yumberry
berrying
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