BERRY
What does "BERRY" mean?
A small, round, juicy fruit without a stone, such as a strawberry or blueberry.
Meanings
- A small, pulpy, often edible fruit, typically with several seeds. We picked a basket of berries along the hedgerow.
- In botany, a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary, such as a grape, tomato, or banana. Botanically, a tomato is a berry but a strawberry is not. technical
- To gather or pick berries. The family went berrying in late August.
Did you know?
- Botanically, a banana is a berry but a strawberry is not: a true berry develops from one flower's single ovary, which the strawberry - with its seeds on the outside - fails to do.
Word origin
From Old English 'berie', from Proto-Germanic 'bazjom', a word for a fruit or grape of uncertain ultimate origin.
Remember it
BERRY has a double-R like a berry's double row of tiny seeds; very merry to eat a berry.
A little poem
Stained purple fingers-
the proof of an afternoon
the basket can't hold.
haiku
Wordplay
- I tried to start a fruit band, but the strawberry wouldn't join - it said it wasn't a true berry and refused to play along.
What it teaches
Names mislead: a thing can wear 'berry' in its name and still not be one, so check before you classify.
Quick facts
What does BERRY mean?
A small, round, juicy fruit without a stone, such as a strawberry or blueberry.
Is BERRY a valid word?
Yes — BERRY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BERRY?
BERRY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does BERRY come from?
From Old English 'berie', from Proto-Germanic 'bazjom', a word for a fruit or grape of uncertain ultimate origin.
What can BERRY teach us?
Names mislead: a thing can wear 'berry' in its name and still not be one, so check before you classify.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.