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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BER'RY, n.
1. A succulent or pulpy fruit, containing naked seeds. Or in more technical language, a succulent pulpy pericarp, or seed vessel, without valves, containing several seeds, which are naked, that is, which have no covering but the pulp and rind. It is commonly round or oval. This botanical definition includes the orange and other like fruits. But in popular language, berry extends only to the smaller fruits, as strawberry, gooseberry, etc.,containing seeds or granules.
2. A mound. [for barrow.]
BER'RY, v.i. To bear or produce berries.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
2: a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
3: United States rock singer (born in 1931) [syn: Berry, Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry] v
1: pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"

Merriam Webster's

geographical name former province central France capital Bourges

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural berries) Etymology: Middle English berye, from Old English berie; akin to Old High German beri berry Date: before 12th century 1. a. a pulpy and usually edible fruit (as a strawberry, raspberry, or checkerberry) of small size irrespective of its structure b. a simple fruit (as a grape, blueberry, tomato, or cucumber) with a pulpy or fleshy pericarp c. the dry seed of some plants (as wheat) 2. an egg of a fish or lobster II. intransitive verb (berried; berrying) Date: circa 1780 1. to bear or produce berries <a berrying shrub> 2. to gather or seek berries

Britannica Concise

French nobleman. Son of the future Charles X, he left France at the outbreak of the French Revolution and lived abroad until 1815. His assassination by a Bonapartist fanatic marked a turning point in the Bourbon Restoration, hastening the downfall of the moderate Decazes government and the polarization into liberal and royalist groups.

Britannica Concise

Simple, fleshy fruit that usually has many seeds (e.g., the banana, tomato, or cranberry). The middle and inner layers of the fruit wall often are not distinct from each other. Any small, fleshy fruit is popularly called a berry, especially if it is edible. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries are not true berries, but rather aggregate fruits--fruits that consist of multiple smaller fruits. The date is a one-seeded berry whose stone is hard nutritive tissue. Historical region and former province, central France. It was originally inhabited by the Bituriges Cubi, who opposed Vercingetorix. Under Roman rule it was part of Aquitania Prima. A countship in the Carolingian period, it fell to the French crown in the 11th cent. When Aquitaine was acquired by Henry II of England, Berry became a matter of dispute between England and France. As a duchy, at one time it came under Jean de France, duc de Berry, an important patron of the arts. It returned to France in 1601 and remained a province until 1798. Simple, fleshy fruit that usually has many seeds (e.g., the banana, tomato, or cranberry). The middle and inner layers of the fruit wall often are not distinct from each other. Any small, fleshy fruit is popularly called a berry, especially if it is edible. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries are not true berries, but rather aggregate fruits--fruits that consist of multiple smaller fruits. The date is a one-seeded berry whose stone is hard nutritive tissue. Historical region and former province, central France. It was originally inhabited by the Bituriges Cubi, who opposed Vercingetorix. Under Roman rule it was part of Aquitania Prima. A countship in the Carolingian period, it fell to the French crown in the 11th cent. When Aquitaine was acquired by Henry II of England, Berry became a matter of dispute between England and France. As a duchy, at one time it came under Jean de France, duc de Berry, an important patron of the arts. It returned to France in 1601 and remained a province until 1798.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 any small roundish juicy fruit without a stone. 2 Bot. a fruit with its seeds enclosed in a pulp (e.g. a banana, tomato, etc.). 3 any of various kernels or seeds (e.g. coffee bean etc.). 4 a fish egg or roe of a lobster etc. --v.intr. (-ies, -ied) 1 (usu. as berrying n.) go gathering berries. 2 form a berry; bear berries. Derivatives: berried adj. (also in comb.). Etymology: OE berie f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Berry Ber"ry, n.; pl. Berries. [OE. berie, AS. berie, berige; akin to D. bes, G. beere, OS. and OHG. beri, Icel. ber, Sw. b["a]r, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat.] 1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. 2. (Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. 3. The coffee bean. 4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish. --Travis. In berry, containing ova or spawn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Berry Ber"ry, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Berried; p. pr. & vb. n. Berrying.] To bear or produce berries.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Berry Ber"ry, n. [AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill.] A mound; a hillock. --W. Browne.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(berries) Berries are small, round fruit that grow on a bush or a tree. Some berries are edible, for example blackberries and raspberries. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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