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English noun: berry | |||
| 1. | berry (food) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | edible fruit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | acerola, barbados cherry, bilberry, blackberry, blueberry, boxberry, boysenberry, checkerberry, cowberry, cranberry, currant, dewberry, European blueberry, hackberry, huckleberry, juneberry, lingonberry, loganberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry, mulberry, persimmon, raspberry, saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry, spiceberry, strawberry, sugarberry, surinam cherry, teaberry, West Indian cherry, whortleberry, wintergreen | ||
| Part meronym | berry | ||
| 2. | berry (plant) a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fruit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bacca, baneberry, cranberry, simple fruit | ||
| Part holonym | berry | ||
| 3. | Berry (person) United States rock singer (born in 1931) | ||
| Synonyms | Charles Edward Berry, Chuck Berry | ||
| Instance hypernym | rock star | ||
English verb: berry | |||
| 1. | berry (contact) pick or gather berries | ||
| Samples | We went berrying in the summer. | ||
| Examples | In the summer they like to go out and berry | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cull, pick, pluck | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blackberry | ||
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