berried

1. 1
   covered in fruitadjective

   Bearing berries, as a bush, tree or branch does when it is in fruit.

   She trimmed the mantel with sprigs of berried holly and pine.

   By November the bushes along the trail were heavily berried, and the birds fed there all day.

   Note

   It sits most naturally right before the plant it describes: the kissing-bunch of berried holly in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913), or berried bryony along a hedge. It also builds hyphenated compounds about the berries themselves, so small-berried grapes are grapes whose berries are small, not merely grapes in fruit; in wine talk, such grapes give less juice but more concentration.

2. 2
   fruit (grow or pick)verb

   Past tense and past participle of berry.

   They berried along the creek until their buckets were full.

   The young plants had barely berried before the first frost came.

   Note

   The y of berry turns to i before -ed, and one spelling serves as both simple past and past participle. The verb can take two kinds of subject: people out picking (we berried along the creek all afternoon) and plants coming into fruit (the young bushes had barely berried). Set before a noun, as in berried holly, it becomes the adjective for plants in fruit.

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