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plural berries
A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. examples
(botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits. examples
A coffee bean. examples
One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean. quotations examples
The crabs carry their berries for six months.
1877, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 24, page 7
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
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
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
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
(slang, US, African-American English) A police car.
(US, slang, dated) A dollar. quotations
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
third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried
To pick berries. quotations examples
Partly because I always itched and prickled in a berry patch I may have been disinclined to nibble as I worked; but largely I think it was because I berried under a master strategist and I wanted to see how well we could coordinate our efforts...
1988, Early American Life, page 35
To bear or produce berries. examples
(now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow. examples
(dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow. examples
An excavation; a military mine. examples
(transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash. examples
(transitive) To thresh (grain). examples