berry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
  2. noun a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
  3. noun United States rock singer (born in 1931)
    Chuck Berry; Charles Edward Berry.
  4. verb pick or gather berries
    • We went berrying in the summer

WordNet

Ber"ry noun
Etymology
OE. berie, AS. berie, berige; akin to D. bes, G. beere, OS. and OHG. beri, Icel. ber, Sw. bär, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat.
Wordforms
plural Berries
Definitions
  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.
Ber"ry intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Berried present participle & verbal noun Berrying
Definitions
  1. To bear or produce berries.
Ber"ry noun
Etymology
AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill.
Definitions
  1. A mound; a hillock. W. Browne.

Webster 1913