Other forms: berries
A berry is a small round juicy fruit without a stone. Pick berries, berry season, a handful of berries.
The botanical definition catches out everybody: a banana, a grape and a tomato are berries, and a strawberry and a raspberry are not. In ordinary speech a berry is simply anything small and round you can eat.
1nounberryA small round juicy fruit without a stone.
“We picked wild berries along the path and ate them on the way home.”
berry is a fruit.
Old English berge names the fruit, from a Germanic root.
Middle English
berye
English, today
berry
From Middle English berye. From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic baʀi, from Proto-Germanic bazją.Marlies Philippa et al., eds., Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands, A-
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