berrynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈber.i/us/ˈber.i/B2 a small, round fruit on particular plants and trees
Examples
- She survived in the forest by eating berries and trapping small animals and birds.
- Gin is made from juniper berries, isn't it?
- You must never eat the berries from that bush - they are poisonous.
- Rachel took a nice juicy berry from the basket and popped it into her mouth.
- The birds have devastated my strawberry plants - there's not a single berry left.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- chaff
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- kernel
- mielie
- nut
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- windfall
- zest
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Examples from literature
- And I believe, said he, "that you have stolen some of my berries out of my basket, while I have been sitting here."
- Walter,' said Gladys quite softly, as she leaned against the straight white trunk of a rowan tree, on which the berries hung rich and red, 'I have often thought of you since that sad day.