berry
The definition of a berry is a small fruit that grows from a single ovary in a plant.
Facts About the Berry
- Berries from the group called Aggregate Fruits are what most people recognize as berries. These fruits are collections of seeds that have formed from different ovaries within a single blossom. Each of the seeds has a matured ovary around it, which is the juice filled portion that animals and humans enjoy.
- Cranberries and blueberries are false berries because they are made from another part of the plant than the ovaries.
Examples of the Aggregate Fruit group are blackberries, raspberries and boysenberries.
Berry means a dried seed or kernel of certain plants like coffee or wheat.
(noun)An example of a berry is a single grain of wheat.
To berry is defined as to create a soft, fleshy fruit.
(verb)An example of to berry is a plant making fruit in the spring.
Berry is defined as to look for and pick small berries.
(verb)An example of to berry is to go pick blackberries when they are growing wild.
See berry in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. berries
- any small, juicy, fleshy fruit, as a strawberry or raspberry
- the dry seed or kernel of various plants, as a coffee bean or wheat grain
- an egg of a lobster, crayfish, etc.
- Bot. a fleshy fruit with a soft wall and thin skin, as the tomato, grape, or cranberry
Origin: ME & OE berie, a berry, grape, akin to ON ber, Goth weina-basi, lit., wine berry
Related Forms:
- berrylike adjective
or Berri
See berry in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. ber·ries
- Botany An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary and having the whole wall fleshy, such as the grape or tomato.
- A small, juicy, fleshy fruit, such as a blackberry or raspberry, regardless of its botanical structure.
- Any of various seeds or kernels, as of dried wheat.
- The small, dark egg of certain crustaceans or fishes.
- To hunt for or gather berries: went berrying in July.
- To bear or produce berries.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English berye
Origin: , from Old English berie; see bhā-1 in Indo-European roots
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