Berry

/ˈbɛɹi/ · noun

Meaning

A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
2. (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
3. A coffee bean.
4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.
5. (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
6. (US, slang, dated) A dollar.
7. (intransitive) To pick berries.
8. To bear or produce berries.

Example Sentences

The crabs carry their berries for six months.

That is the only restriction existing: not even small fish or fish in berry, and there are no restrictions on soft-shelled fish.

These crawfish are speared by the Kafirs, who bring them in to the village for sale, and who catch anything and everything either female fish in berry, or male fish in soft shell.

The corals have the shape of a shrub and are green. Their berries are snow-white under water and soft. As soon as you take them out of the water, they grow hard and red.

McCormick (1934) stated that eggs in various stages of development were found in females at the same time that they were in berry, which indicates a long egg-laying season.

Today was like one of those fly dreams / Didn't even see a berry flashin' those high beams

Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!

On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.

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Word Forms

• berries
• berrying
• berried
• berye
• berie

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