1. berry
noun. ['ˈbɛri'] any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves.
Synonyms
- acerola
- strawberry
- surinam cherry
- barbados cherry
- persimmon
- whortleberry
- shadberry
- European blueberry
- mountain cranberry
- checkerberry
- cranberry
- blackberry
- edible fruit
- juneberry
- wintergreen
- mulberry
- saskatoon
- cowberry
- teaberry
- raspberry
- hackberry
- lingonberry
- loganberry
- spiceberry
- bilberry
- West Indian cherry
- huckleberry
- currant
- boxberry
- serviceberry
- lowbush cranberry
- dewberry
- sugarberry
- boysenberry
Antonyms
- push
- spread
- fearfulness
- gutlessness
Etymology
- bery (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berye (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berige (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- beryen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berȝe (Middle English (1100-1500))
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Words that Rhyme with Berry
- francesmary
- tagliaferri
- palminteri
- balistreri
- montazeri
- canzoneri
- bollettieri
- st_mary
- pusateri
- prosperi
- palmieri
- glengarry
- contrary
- camilleri
- barillari
- sunseri
- spiteri
- silveri
- scuderi
- ranieri
- plumeri
- palmeri
- oliveri
- mcsherry
- mcquerry
- mcnary
- mcnairy
- mccrary
- mcclary
- macsharry
Example sentences of the word berry
1. Noun, singular or mass
Acai berry and blueberry belong to the same dark-colored berry family.
2. ground-berry
noun. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia.
Synonyms
- Styphelia humifusum
- shrub
- Astroloma humifusum
- groundberry
- bush
- genus Astroloma
- native cranberry
- Astroloma
3. ground-berry
noun. creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil.
Synonyms
- Gaultheria procumbens
- Gaultheria
- boxberry
- shrublet
- wintergreen
- genus Gaultheria
- groundberry
- oil of wintergreen
- teaberry
- spiceberry
- creeping wintergreen
- mountain tea
- checkerberry
Antonyms
- superior
4. poison-berry
noun. Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible.
Synonyms
- common nightshade
- garden huckleberry
- wonderberry
- poisonberry
- sunberry
- Solanum melanocerasum
- Solanum burbankii
- nightshade
- black nightshade
- Solanum nigrum
5. red-berry
noun. small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries.
Synonyms
- redberry
- buckthorn
6. red-berry
noun. North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries.
Synonyms
- snakeberry
- cohosh
- baneberry
- red baneberry
- herb Christopher
- redberry
7. dangle-berry
noun. huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit.
Synonyms
- Gaylussacia frondosa
- huckleberry
8. Berry
noun. United States rock singer (born in 1931).
Synonyms
- Chuck Berry
9. berry
noun. ['ˈbɛri'] a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry).
Synonyms
- simple fruit
- bacca
- baneberry
- fruit
Etymology
- bery (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berye (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berige (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- beryen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berȝe (Middle English (1100-1500))
10. berry
verb. ['ˈbɛri'] pick or gather berries.
Synonyms
- blackberry
- pick
- cull
Etymology
- bery (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berye (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berige (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
- beryen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- berȝe (Middle English (1100-1500))