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(Bot.) The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. barbarin, barbere, OF. berbere. ] (Bot.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. Berberis vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [ Also spelt berberry. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. (b) A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris). (c) The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; -- called also myrtle wax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. beorh. See Barrow a hill. ] A mound; a hillock. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Berries. [ OE. berie, AS. berie, berige; akin to D. bes, G. beere, OS. and OHG. beri, Icel. ber, Sw. bär, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat. ] 1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The coffee bean. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish. Travis. [ 1913 Webster ]

In berry, containing ova or spawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Berried p. pr. & vb. n. Berrying. ] To bear or produce berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bilberries [ Cf. Dan. böllebær bilberry, where bölle is perh. akin to E. ball. ] 1. (Bot.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, Vaccinium cæspitosum and Vaccinium uliginosum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. blakberye, AS. blæcberie; blæc black + berie berry. ] The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; Rubus villosus and Rubus Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry.
Syn. -- leopard lily, Belamcanda chinensis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Blæ + berry; akin to Icel blāber, Sw. bl&unr_;bär, D. blaabær. Cf. Blueberry. ] The bilberry. [ North of Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Blaeberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bushy houseplant (Rivina humilis) having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; it is native to the tropical Americas.
Syn. -- rougeberry, rouge plant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Blaeberry. ] (Bot.) The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens). [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a large raspberry-flavored bramble fruit; a cross between blackberries and raspberries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a light gabardine raincoat of the type made by Burberry's of London. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. cassine, from the language of the Florida Indians. ] The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Checkerberries (Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans.
Syn. -- China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a tree of N India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern US as a shade tree.
Syn. -- chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, azederach, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia azedarach. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern U. S. (Lycium carolinianum) having spreading branches with usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries.
Syn. -- Christmas berry, Lycium carolinianum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of US Pacific coast (Photinia arbutifolia) having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia.
Syn. -- toyon, tollon, Christmas berry, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Photinia arbutifolia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an evergreen shrub of Western U.S. (Rhamnus californicus), bearing small red or black fruits; -- called also the California buckthorn.
Syn. -- California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a North American deciduous shrub (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) cultivated for its abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits.
Syn. -- Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. shrub (Ardisia crenata) with coral-red berries; it is found from Japan to northern India.
Syn. -- spiceberry, Ardisia crenata. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Cowberries (Bot.) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium Vitis-idæa), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a creeping red-berried perenial herb (Cornus canadensis) distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska.
Syn. -- bunchberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry, Cornus canadensis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) See Crowberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Cranberries (-r&ibreve_;z). [ So named from its fruit being ripe in the spring when the cranes return. Dr. Prior. ] (Bot.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries. It is sometimes called high cranberry to distinguish it from the marsh cranberry or low cranberry.
Syn. -- guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, crampbark, Viburnum opulus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of Rubus cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of Rubus canadensis and Rubus hispidus, species of low blackberries. (b) The plant which bears the fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feed him with apricots and dewberries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dogberry tree (Bot.), the dogwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) 1. The berrylike drupe of the elder. That of the Old World elder (Sambucus nigra) and that of the American sweet elder (S. Canadensis) are sweetish acid, and are eaten as a berry or made into wines or jellies. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the European variety of elder (see 3rd elder), a common black-fruited shrub or small tree of Europe and Asia; the fruit is used for wines and jellies.
Syn. -- bourtree, black elder, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. Prov. E. feabe, theabe, thape. ] (Bot.) A gooseberry. [ Prov. Eng. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Gooseberries [ Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry, fr. OF. groisele, F. groseille, -- of German origin; cf. G. krausbeere, kräuselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), D. kruisbes, kruisbezie (as if crossberry, fr. kruis cross; for kroesbes, kroesbezie, fr. kroes crisp), Sw. krusbär (fr. krus, krusing, crisp). The first part of the word is perh. akin to E. curl. Cf. Grossular, a. ] 1. (Bot.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. --
Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. --
Gooseberry fool. See 1st Fool. --
Gooseberry worm (Zool.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small prostrate or ascending shrub (Astroloma humifusum) having scarlet flowers and thin-fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in the genus Styphelia.
Syn. -- native cranberry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A creeping shrub of eastern North America (Gaultheria procumbens) having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil.
Syn. -- teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. Celtis occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Prunus (Prunus Padus); the bird cherry. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]