Definitions for berries

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berries ber·ry

Spelling: [ber-ee]

IPA: /ˈbɛr i/

Berries is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in berries (beeirrs).

Definitions for berries

noun

1. any small, usually stoneless, juicy fruit, irrespective of botanical structure, as the huckleberry, strawberry, or hackberry.
2. Botany. a simple fruit having a pulpy pericarp in which the seeds are embedded, as the grape, gooseberry, currant, or tomato.
3. a dry seed or kernel, as of wheat.
4. the hip of the rose.
5. one of the eggs of a lobster, crayfish, etc.
6. the berries, Older Slang. someone or something very attractive or unusual.

verb (used without object)

1. to gather or pick berries:
2. to bear or produce berries.

Origin of berries

before 1000; Middle English berie, Old English beri(g)e; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German beri (German Beere), Old Norse ber Germanic basjá-; akin to Dutch besie, Gothic -basi Germanic

Examples for berries

But unlike Marcia, who was so singular, berries in all their varieties are plentiful.

Italian summer puddings, with layers of berries, ladyfingers, and chocolate mascarpone, recall a lighter version of tiramisu.

Mash or chop the berries, as preferred, and add the sugar to them.

As soon as the skins of the berries have cracked, add the sugar.

Pinch it with your fingers until it makes large crumbles and distribute it on the berries (it will not cover them entirely).

Birds eat their berries, which are coated in gluey material called viscin.

Mrs. Rushton was braiding straw when Robert entered with his berries.

Did you ever notice that going down wind you could see the berries better?

At the same time I will carry him some berries as a present.

“Bears survive on nuts and berries,” according to Schwartz of the San Diego Zoo.