English > berry: 4 senses > noun 1, foodMeaning | Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves. |
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Part of | berry | A small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) |
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Narrower | acerola, barbados cherry, surinam cherry, West Indian cherry | acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C |
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bilberry, whortleberry, European blueberry | blue-black berries similar to American blueberries |
blackberry | large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus |
blueberry | Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants |
boysenberry | large raspberry-flavored fruit |
cranberry | Very tart red berry used for sauce or juice |
currant | Any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams |
dewberry | Blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes |
huckleberry | blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States |
lingonberry, mountain cranberry, cowberry, lowbush cranberry | tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller |
loganberry | large red variety of the dewberry |
mulberry | Sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus |
persimmon | orange fruit resembling a plum |
raspberry | Red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries |
saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, juneberry | edible purple or red berries |
strawberry | Sweet fleshy red fruit |
sugarberry, hackberry | small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits |
wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry | spicy red berrylike fruit |
Broader | edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
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Spanish | baya |
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Catalan | baia |
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Verbs | berry | pick or gather berries |
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