Noun: berry
| Singular | berry |
| Plural | berries |
Sample Sentences
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The crabs carry their berries for six months. [1877, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 24, page 7:]
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That is the only restriction existing: not even small fish or fish in berry, and there are no restrictions on soft-shelled fish. [1913, Journals and Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania, page 94:]
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These crawfish are speared by the Kafirs, who bring them in to the village for sale, and who catch anything and everything either female fish in berry, or male fish in soft shell. [1914, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Provincial Council, Minutes and Ordinances - Volume 5, page 3:]
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The corals have the shape of a shrub and are green. Their berries are snow-white under water and soft. As soon as you take them out of the water, they grow hard and red. [1960, Friedrich Simon Bodenheimer, Animal and Man in Bible Lands: Supplement, page 86:]
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McCormick (1934) stated that eggs in various stages of development were found in females at the same time that they were in berry, which indicates a long egg-laying season. [1965, Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service - Volume 65, page 55:]
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Today was like one of those fly dreams
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Didn't even see a berry flashin' those high beams [1992, Ice Cube, “It Was a Good Day”, in The Predator:]
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Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more! [1921, Collier's, volume 67, page 365:]
Nouns inflected like berry
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją.
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.
3. The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs. See: Middle English Nouns '
berye', Old English Nouns '
berġe', German Nouns '
Beere', Icelandic Nouns '
ber', Danish Nouns '
bær'.
Verbs referencing "berry"
Dutch Nouns
bes, German Nouns
Berg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
bær, German Nouns
Beere, Dutch Nouns
bezie, Latin Nouns
ferentarius.