Hypertext Webster Gateway: "berry"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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["a]r, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat.]
1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry,
huckleberry, etc.
2. (Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent
throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as
the currant, grape, blueberry.
3. The coffee bean.
4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish. --Travis.
{In berry}, containing ova or spawn.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Berry \Ber"ry\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Berried}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Berrying}.]
To bear or produce berries.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Berry \Ber"ry\, n. [AS. beorh. See {Barrow} a hill.]
A mound; a hillock. --W. Browne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
berry
n 1: any of numerous small edible pulpy fruits either simple
(grape; blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry; raspberry)
2: a pulpy and usually edible small fruit having any of various
structures: e.g. strawberry or raspberry or blueberry
3: United States rock singer (born in 1931) [syn: {Berry}, {Chuck
Berry}, {Charles Edward Berry}]
v : pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"
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