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noun

Berry n. (pl. berries)

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

(Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.

The coffee bean.

One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

In berry, containing ova or spawn.

Berry n. A mound; a hillock.

verb

Berry v. i. (past & past part. berried; pres. part. berrying) To bear or produce berries.

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Etymology of 'Berry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Berry" Quotes from Famous Books

... Berry was given by William the Conqueror to one of his Normans, Ralph de la Pomerai, who built on it the castle which still bears his name, and in whose family it continued till the reign of Edward VI. when it was sold by Sir Thomas Pomeroy to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, from whom ...

— Poems • Sir John Carr

... are listed as cooperators with the U.S.D.A., Division of Forest Pathology, Beltsville, Md., we prepare semi-annual reports for Dr. Frederick H. Berry and also send a portion of our American chestnut seed to him. In this way we insure the continuation of the "Dutchess" clone after ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various

... the seasons is best. In the early spring the Cattle and Elk ranges, with their winter-killed carcasses, offer a bountiful feast. In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow. In late summer the berry-bushes along the river-flat are laden with fruit, and in autumn the pine woods gave good chances to fatten for the winter. So he added to his range each year. He not only cleared out the Blackbears from the Piney and the Meteetsee, but he went ...

— The Biography of a Grizzly • Ernest Seton-Thompson

... months, myriads of insects are killed and eaten by the cedar waxwings, yet these birds are preeminently berry eaters,—choke-cherries, cedar berries, blueberries, and raspberries being preferred. Watch a flock of these birds in a cherry tree, and you will see the pits fairly rain down. We need not place our heads, a la Newton, in the path of these falling stones ...

— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... 'ere?" cried Cassandra, whose large dark eyes were rolling on every side of her, with a curiosity that no care or sense of danger could extinguish; "'em berry big fish ...

— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper

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