berry
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
berry/ˈberi/
▶noun (pl. berries)
- 1 a small roundish juicy fruit without a stone.
■ Botany any fruit that has its seeds enclosed in a fleshy pulp, e.g. a banana.
- 2 a fish egg or roe of a lobster or similar creature.
– derivatives
berried adjective,
berrying noun.
berried adjective,
berrying noun.
– origin OE berie, of Gmc origin.
'berry' also found in these Oxford entries:
bagatelle
- baneberry
- bay
- bilberry
- blackcurrant
- blueberry
- brown
- Cape gooseberry
- checkerberry
- cloudberry
- coccidia
- coccolith
- coccus
- corncockle
- cornelian cherry
- cowberry
- cranberry
- crowberry
- elderberry
- goji berry
- gooseberry
- grape
- hackberry
- jujube
- juneberry
- juniper
- kermes
- lingonberry
- loganberry
- mulberry
- naseberry
- nux vomica
- pepper
- peppercorn
- raspberry
- redcurrant
- sargassum
- soapberry
- staphylococcus
- strawberry
- tutsan
- wolfberry
- woody nightshade
- yew
