BERRY (berried)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: berried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Berry mean? 

• BERRY (noun)
  The noun BERRY has 3 senses:

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

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

3. United States rock singer (born in 1931)

  Familiarity information: BERRY used as a noun is uncommon.

• BERRY (verb)
  The verb BERRY has 1 sense:

1. pick or gather berries

  Familiarity information: BERRY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("berry" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "berry"):

huckleberry (blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States)

mulberry (sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus)

acerola; barbados cherry; surinam cherry; West Indian cherry (acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C)

persimmon (orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe)

hackberry; sugarberry (small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States)

strawberry (sweet fleshy red fruit)

juneberry; saskatoon; serviceberry; shadberry (edible purple or red berries)

raspberry (red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries)

loganberry (large red variety of the dewberry)

dewberry (blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes)

boysenberry (large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries)

blackberry (large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus)

currant (any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams)

cowberry; lingonberry; lowbush cranberry; mountain cranberry (tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller)

cranberry (very tart red berry used for sauce or juice)

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)

blueberry (sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants)

bilberry; European blueberry; whortleberry (blue-black berries similar to American blueberries)

Holonyms ("berry" is a part of...):

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

Derivation:

berry (pick or gather berries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("berry" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Meronyms (parts of "berry"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "berry"):

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)

Derivation:

berry (pick or gather berries)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States rock singer (born in 1931)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Berry; Charles Edward Berry; Chuck Berry

Instance hypernyms:

rock star (a famous singer of rock music)

• BERRY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they berry    ... he / she / it berries   
Past simple: berried   
Past participle: berried   
-ing form: berrying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pick or gather berries

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

We went berrying in the summer

Hypernyms (to "berry" is one way to...):

cull; pick; pluck (look for and gather)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "berry"):

blackberry (pick or gather blackberries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and berry

Derivation:

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

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

 Context examples 

An assessment tool created by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues to assist caregivers in determining developmental strengths and weaknesses in infants from birth to the age of two months.

(Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance found in the leaves and beans of the coffee tree, in tea, yerba mate, guarana berries, and in small amounts in cocoa.

(Caffeine, NCI Dictionary)

The round, black berries of the flowering shrub Vitex agnus-castus, native to Mediterranean countries and Asia.

(Chaste Berry, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called: Intracranial Aneurysm, Berry Aneurysm, Berry aneurysm, Cerebral aneurysm, Intracranial aneurysm

(Brain Aneurysm, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Freeze-dried berry powder will absorb moisture from the premix base, improving its stability and texture to the point where the frozen dessert will keep its shape even after melting to room temperature.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles berry.

(Berry Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

Chaste tree berry may affect levels of reproductive hormones in the blood.

(Chaste tree berry, NCI Dictionary)

Saccular (berry) aneurysms are the most common variant, and tend to form at arterial branch points near the base of the brain.

(Intracranial Aneurysm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In Berry it is the women that are sour, but the wines are rich.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)