Definition of "berry" in English

noun

1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.

2. (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.

3. A coffee bean.

4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.

5. (slang, US, African-American) A police car.

6. (US, slang, dated) A dollar.

verb

1. (intransitive) To pick berries.

   • On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.

2. To bear or produce berries.

noun

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.

noun

1. (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.

2. An excavation; a military mine.

verb

1. (transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.

2. (transitive) To thresh (grain).