|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

berry

DEFINITIONS OF: berry

1

n a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)

Types:
cranberry
very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
baneberry
a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea
bacca, simple fruit
an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry
Type of:
fruit
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

n any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves

Types:
show 21 types...
hide 21 types...
European blueberry, bilberry, whortleberry
blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
huckleberry
blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States
blueberry
sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants
boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen
spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
cranberry
very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
cowberry, lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry
tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
currant
any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams
blackberry
large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
boysenberry
large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries
dewberry
blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes
loganberry
large red variety of the dewberry
raspberry
red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry
edible purple or red berries
strawberry
sweet fleshy red fruit
hackberry, sugarberry
small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States
persimmon
orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe
West Indian cherry, acerola, barbados cherry, surinam cherry
acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C
mulberry
sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus
gooseberry
currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
black currant
small black berries used in jams and jellies
red currant
small red berries used primarily in jams and jellies
Type of:
edible fruit
edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh

v pick or gather berries

“We went berrying in the summer”
Types:
blackberry
pick or gather blackberries
Type of:
cull, pick, pluck
look for and gather
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES