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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ber•ry /ˈbɛri/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -ries. - Botanyany small, soft, round, usually juicy fruit growing on a bush or tree, as the strawberry, grape, or tomato.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ber•ry (ber′ē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ries, v., -ried, -ry•ing. n. - Botanyany small, usually stoneless, juicy fruit, irrespective of botanical structure, as the huckleberry, strawberry, or hackberry.
- Botanya simple fruit having a pulpy pericarp in which the seeds are embedded, as the grape, gooseberry, currant, or tomato.
- Botanya dry seed or kernel, as of wheat.
- Botanythe hip of the rose.
- Invertebratesone of the eggs of a lobster, crayfish, etc.
- Slang Terms the berries, [Older Slang.]someone or something very attractive or unusual.
v.i. - to gather or pick berries:We went berrying this morning.
- to bear or produce berries.
- Gmc básja-
- Gmc basjá-; akin to Dutch besie, Gothic -basi
- bef. 1000; Middle English berie, Old English beri( g)e; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German beri (German Beere), Old Norse ber
ber′ry•less, adj. ber′ry•like′, adj. Ber•ry (ber′ē; for 2 also Fr. be rē′),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical Charles Edward Anderson ("Chuck''), born 1926, U.S. rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
- Place NamesAlso, Ber′ri. a former province in central France.
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