berry
Plural: berries
Noun
- any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
- a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
- United States rock singer (born in 1931)
- A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
- A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
- A coffee bean.
- One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
- A police car.
- A dollar.
- A mound; a barrow.
- A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
- An excavation; a military mine.
Verb
Verb Forms: berried, berrying, berries
- To produce berries, which are small, fleshy fruits.
- pick or gather berries
- "We went berrying in the summer"
- To pick berries.
- To bear or produce berries.
- To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
- To thresh (grain).
Examples
- His strategy was to berry the board with small, quick-scoring words.
- On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.
Origin / Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Middle English berye
English berry
From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.
The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs.
Synonyms
Charles Edward Berry, Chuck Berry, berry
Scrabble Score: 10
berry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordberry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
berry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary