Etymology : Middle English berye, from Old English berie; akin to Old High German beri berry
Pronunciation : 'ber-E
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. produce berries; gather or pick berries. type of small fruit; granule; coffee bean. a police car. The red lights on old cop cars looked like a berry on top of an ice cream. "Berry flashing those high beams " refers to a cop behind your car signalling for you to pull over: "Didn't even see:
a berry flashing those high beams " -- Ice Cube (Today was a good day [1993]). berry\ber"ry\ , n.; pl. berries. [oe. berie, as. berie, berige; akin to d. bes, g. beere, os. and ohg. beri, icel. ber, sw. b?r, goth. basi, and perh. skr. bhas to eat.].
2. any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
3. (bot.) a small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
4. the coffee bean.
5. one of the ova or eggs of a fish.
6. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
7. A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
8. The coffee bean.
9. One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
10. To bear or produce berries.
11. A mound; a hillock. any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves United States rock singer a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple or aggregate pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer".
12. Berries are small, round fruit that grow on a bush or a tree. Some berries are edible, for example blackberries and raspberries. berries a small soft fruit with small seeds. Historical region and former province, central France. It was originally inhabited by the Bituriges Cubi, who opposed Vercingetorix. Under Roman rule it was part of Aquitania Prima. A countship in the Carolingian period, it fell to the French crown in the 11th century. When Aquitaine was acquired by Henry II of England, Berry became a matter of dispute between England and France. As a duchy, at one time it came under Jean de France, duke de Berry, an important patron of the arts. It returned to France in 1601 and remained a province until 1798. Simple, fleshy fruit that usually has many seeds (e.g., the banana, tomato, or cranberry). The middle and inner layers of the fruit wall often are not distinct from each other. Any small, fleshy fruit is popularly called a berry, especially if it is edible. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries are not true berries, but rather aggregate fruits fruits that consist of multiple smaller fruits. The date is a one-seeded berry whose stone is hard nutritive tissue. Berry Chuck Charles Edward Anderson Berry Berry Jean de France duke de Earp Wyatt Berry Stapp.