berry

Pluralberries

Formsberries, berrying, berried

1. 1
   small fruitnouncountable

   A small, soft, juicy fruit of any of many different kinds.

   She picked a ripe berry and popped it into her mouth.

   We bought a box of fresh berries at the market.

2. 2
   botanynouncountable

   In plant science, a soft fruit that grows from one flower's seed case and has seeds but no hard pit.

   To a scientist who studies plants, a tomato is a berry.

   Grapes are berries, but cherries are not, because each cherry has a hard pit.

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3. 3
   coffee beannouncountable

   A coffee bean, one of the beans used to make coffee.

   Each berry must be roasted before it is ground for coffee.

   The café roasts its own berries, so the whole street smells like coffee.

   Similarbean

4. 4
   pick fruitverbintransitive

   To pick berries off the plants they grow on.

   Every summer we berry along the road near our cabin.

   Berrying is fun, but the thorns can scratch your arms.

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5. 5
   fish eggnouncountable or uncountable

   One of the eggs of a fish, or of a shelled animal like a crab.

   The crab carried a mass of tiny berries tucked under its body.

   Any lobster in berry has to be put back in the sea.

   Similaregg

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6. 6
   bear fruitverbintransitive

   To grow berries, as a bush or other plant does.

   Our holly bush did not berry at all this year.

   The young bushes are berrying for the first time.

   Similarfruit

7. 7
   region of Franceproper noun · Berry

   An area in the middle of France that used to be a province.

   Her grandparents grew up on a farm in Berry, in France.

   On our trip to France, we spent a quiet week in Berry.

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