noun
berry
BAIR-ee/ˈberi/
A small, fleshy fruit, often edible.
A ripe berry lies beside a bowl filled with blueberries.
Etymology
Old English berie already named berries and grapes, so the small-fruit meaning is inherited rather than a later metaphor. Its deeper origin is unknown.
In context
blueberry bushes as it moves along it gently shakes the bushes causing the ripe berries to fall onto catch plates before being conveyed into large bins it's like a berry friendly earthquake minus the destruction
More examples
- The children gathered berries in a basket.
- A bright red berry hung beneath the leaf.
- Only a few berries remained on the shrub.
Forms
berry · berries
Similar words
- fruit
- The broader category including many forms other than berries.
- drupe
- A drupe has a hard stone around its seed and is a different botanical fruit type.