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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

... "Massa's berry kind to Pompey; But ole darkey's happy here, Where he's tended corn and cotton For 'ese many a long-gone year. Over yonder Missis's sleeping— No one tends her grave like me; Mebbie she would miss the flowers She ...

— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... roseleaf cushions, mounted on four ivy-berry wheels and with four shining beetles for horses came driving up ...

— The Magic Soap Bubble • David Cory

... Essex, jealous of Raleigh, expressed great displeasure at his conduct, and construed it as an intention of robbing the general of the glory which attended that action: he cashiered, therefore, Sidney, Bret, Berry, and others, who had concurred in the attempt: and would have proceeded to inflict the same punishment on Raleigh himself, had not Lord Thomas Howard interposed with his good offices, and persuaded Raleigh, though high-spirited, to make submissions ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

... sheik am going to kill someb'dy, dat berry sure," said the Krooman, as he sat with his ...

— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid

... latter, at no little trouble, had provided as luscious a dessert of strawberries as the tooth of epicure ever watered over. They were the first of the season, and fragrant with the fragrance that has given the berry premiership in the estimation of others besides Isaac Walton. While everybody was proving that the berries tasted even better than they looked, and exclaiming over the treat, Field was observed to push his saucer ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

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