bes

Definitions of bes
  1. noun
    any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
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    bosbes
    blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
    wintergroen
    spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    veenbes
    very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
    cranberry, vossebes
    tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
    bosbraam, braam, braambes
    large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
    loganbes
    large red variety of the dewberry
    framboos
    red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
    aardbei, zomerkoninkje
    sweet fleshy red fruit
    kakivrucht, persimoen
    orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe
    moerbei, moerbes
    sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus
    klapbes, kruisbes, stekelbes
    currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
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    vrucht
    edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
  2. noun
    any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants
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    aalbes
    cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries
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    punch, rumpunch, struik
    a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
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