Berry
/'beri/
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Definition
Noun:
- A small, pulpy, and often edible fruit: A "berry" is typically a small, fleshy fruit that develops from a single ovary and contains seeds. In botanical terms, it has a specific structure (e.g., a grape or tomato), but in common culinary use, it refers to various small fruits like strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries.
- A small, rounded fruit used in desserts, jams, etc.: "Berry" commonly denotes any of numerous small, juicy fruits consumed fresh or used in cooking, baking, and preserves.
Verb:
- To pick or gather berries: The action of collecting berries from plants.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- She added fresh berries to her morning yogurt.
- The botanist explained that a banana is technically a berry.
- Verb:
- Every August, we go to the forest to berry.
- They spent the afternoon berrying for the pie contest.
Advanced Usage
- "To go berrying": To go out specifically to pick wild berries.
- As children, we loved to go berrying in the hills behind our house.
Variants and Related Words
- Berrylike (adj): Resembling a berry in appearance or texture.
- Berrypicker (n): A person or tool used for gathering berries.
Synonyms
- Fruitlet: A small fruit.
- Drupelet: A small drupe (a fruit with a stone), often part of an aggregate fruit like a raspberry.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
(Note: "Berry" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. The verb form typically stands alone.)
Related Idioms
- "As brown as a berry": Very suntanned.
- After two weeks at the beach, he was as brown as a berry.
Noun
- United States rock singer (born in 1931)
- a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
- any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
Verb
- pick or gather berries
- We went berrying in the summer