berry

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A small pulpy fruit]

Syn. drupe, hip, drupelet, haw, pome.

Common berries include: raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, loganberry, boysenberry, cranberry, huckleberry, whortleberry, bilberry, gooseberry, currant, strawberry, checkerberry, dewberry, hagberry, dogberry, bayberry, serviceberry, mulberry.

2. [A dry fruit]

Syn. seed, grain, kernel; see bean 1 .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

fruit, crop.

WORD FIND

• amber, apricot-flavored: cloudberry

• aphrodisiac, alleged: myrtle

• blueberry-like: bilberry, Juneberry

• bears, scarlet berries eaten by: bearberries

• blackish: huckleberry (whortleberry), blackberry, black raspberry

• blackish or dark red: boysenberry

• blue: blueberry

• bog: cranberries

• candles, gray, aromatic berries used for: bayberry

• large pink, red, white or yellow: gooseberry

• minty breath freshener: wintergreen

• orange, red or black: barberry

• poisonous: pokeweed berry

• purplish-black: elderberry

• purplish, red, black or white: mulberry

• raspberry-like: boysenberry, blackberry, mulberry

• red: boysenberry

• red and sweet: strawberry

• red, tart: cranberry, currant

• tart, black: currant