BERRIES

Definition: BERRIES

BERRIES

Plural

1. Of Berry

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BERRIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonym: BERRIES

Crosswords: BERRIES

You're the pansies in my garden, the cream in my mocha and java, the berries in my pie. (The Hollywood Revue of 1929; writing credit: Al Boasberg; Robert E. Hopkins)

All we found were these oozing berries, and they look pretty poisonous (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I ated the purple berries oooh, oohh (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'll be wit' you where berries are blue ("Blueberry Hill"; performing artist: Fats Domino)

Tested Berries (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Juniper Berries and Seeds of Anise, Badian, Fennel, Coriander, Cumin, or Caraway: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• All about growing fruits & berries (reference)

• Backyard Fruits and Berries: Everything You Need to Know About Planting and Growing Fruits and Berries in Your Own Backyard (reference)

• Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Nuts, Berries, and Seeds (reference)

• Priscilla Hauser's Book of Fruits and Berries (reference)

• Secrets of Plant Propagation: Starting Your Own Flowers, Vegetables, Fruits, Berries, Shrubs, Trees, and Houseplants (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Trees, Shrubs Nuts& Berries, Video Cooking and Field Guide (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Wild Berries Brushed Green Dinner Plates - 11" (Set of 4) (reference)

• Wild Berries Oval Platter (17") (reference)

• Wild Berries Pitcher (70-oz.) (reference)

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Young woman is seen with her father tasting berries. Mountains can be seen in the background. They are members of a larger Mormon family who are being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Two young women can be seen behind some plant leaves. They seem to be picking some berries on a sunny day. These women are members of a larger Mormon family who are being studied for their low rate of cancer deaths. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Coast Guard pilot Lieutenant Vaughan with salmon berries. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Red berries and green leaves. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Brazilian Pepper bushes are an ornamental from Brazil that looks like Holly. They produce red berries that birds eat. The birds carry their seeds spreading the plant throughout mangrove habitat where the Pepper bush outcompetes the mangroves. The red berries are beautiful but toxic; direct contact with them causes a poison ivy-like rash. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Volunteers haul away Brazilian Pepper brush. This part of the restoration is extremely labor intensive. The brush must be cut by hand, chipped and then burned. The pepper brush must be burned before the berries turn red or the seeds will be distributed and begin new growth. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Bayberry - Myrica pensylvanica. Early colonists boiled the berries and made aromatic candles from the wax. The berries are still used as components of candles. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Berries are food for wildlife. Credit: Unknown.

A bowl of berries is a treat for the eye as well as a delight for the palate. But these tasty little morsels happen to be quite tricky to grow, harvest, and handle. These crops tend to have brief growing seasons and are vulnerable to insects, disease, and even birds, so ARS scientists have given them lots of attention. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

America's strawberry growers are testing various new methods of growing bautiful berries like this one without using methyl bromide, an effective but environmentally unfriendly soil fumigant that's scheduled for phaseout by 2005. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed

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Health

They also eat berries, nuts, eggs, snakes, and turtles. (references)

This might include grass, herbs, greens, or berries gathered from fields. (references)

Economic History

Kyrgyzstan

Agriculture: Products--tobacco, cotton, potatoes, vegetables, grapes, fruits and berries; sheep, goats, cattle, wool. (references)

Norway

Products--dairy, livestock, grain (barley, oats, wheat), potatoes and other vegetables, fruits and berries, furs, wool. (references)

Guatemala

Guatemala's most important agricultural products are coffee, sugar, bananas, berries, ornamental plants/flowers and seafood (traditional exports). (references)

Political Economy

GUATEMALA

Dramatic declines in world prices for coffee have adversely affected the economy during 2000 and 2001. Nontraditional agricultural exports, e.g., specialty vegetables and fruits, berries, shrimp, and ornamental plants and flowers, account for an increasing share of export revenues. (references)

Travel

Finland

Finnish food is consistent to produce that is in season, which provides an array of berries, mushrooms, seafood etc. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "BERRIES": JUNIPER BERRIES ♦ pick berries ♦ Squinancy berries. Additional references.

Ending with "BERRIES": sains-berries, turtle-berries.

Chinese 

莓果 (Berry). (various references)

Danish

baerfrugt (small fruit, soft fruit), bærfrugter (small fruit, soft fruit), bær (berry). (various references)

Dutch

bessen (small fruit, soft fruit), klein fruit (small fruit, soft fruit). (various references)

Finnish

marjat (small fruit, soft fruit). (various references)

French

baies, petits fruits rouges, fruit à baies. (various references)

German

Beeren. (various references)

Greek 

σαρκώδης καρπός (berry, small fruit, soft fruit), μαλακός καρπός (small fruit, soft fruit). (various references)

Hungarian

mint a szemét (have no end of money, they are as common as black berries, they are as common as black dirt), annyi van (they are as common as black berries, they are as common as black dirt). (various references)

Italian

bacche (small fruit, soft fruit). (various references)

Korean 

장과 (Berry). (various references)

Manx

smeyrey (picking berries, stain), smeireeagh (picking berries), keirnyn (rowan berries). (various references)

Pig Latin

erriesbay.(various references)

Portuguese

bagas de escambroeiro (buckthorn berries, Persian berries, Turkish seeds, yellow berries), sorveira-dos-passarinhos (a Eurasian tree(Sorbus asucuparia)with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by red pomes resembling berries, mountain ash, rowan, rowan tree). (various references)

Spanish

bayas (small fruit, soft fruit), bacas, frutos de baya (small fruit, soft fruit). (various references)

Swedish

bär (bears, Berry, wears). (various references)

Thai

เหล้าองุ่น. (various references)

Turkmen 

kisel (kisel). (various references)

Welsh

olifaid (olive berries). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "BERRIES": baneberries, barberries, bayberries, bearberries, bilberries, blackberries, blaeberries, blueberries, boxberries, boysenberries, buffaloberries, bunchberries, candleberries, checkerberries, chinaberries, chokeberries, cloudberries, coralberries, cowberries, cranberries, crowberries, deerberries, dewberries, dingleberries, dogberries, elderberries, farkleberries, gooseberries, hackberries, hagberries, huckleberries, inkberries, lingonberries, loganberries, mulberries, partridgeberries, pokeberries, raspberries, rowanberries, salmonberries, serviceberries, shadberries, sheepberries, silverberries, snowberries, soapberries, strawberries, sugarberries, teaberries, thimbleberries, twinberries. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BERRIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barries, Barris, Barrys, beraise, Berardius, bergii, Bergisel, berief, Beris, Berliozz, bernes, berri, berrie, berrier, Berriew, Berrios, Berryer, bertie, Berties, Betrasey, betries, Beyrie, borris, ebris, Gerries. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: briers, rerise, sirree.

-2 letters: beers, biers, birrs, birse, brees, brier, bries, ribes, riser, serer, siree.

-3 letters: beer, bees, bier, birr, bise, bree, brie, bris, errs, ires, rebs, rees, reis, ribs, rise, seer, sere, sire.

-4 letters: bee, bis, brr, ere, err, ers, ire, reb, ree, rei, res, rib, see, sei, ser, sib, sir, sri.

-5 letters: be.

+1 letter: berberis, breviers, briefers, reburies.

+2 letters: berberins, beriberis, bestirred, beworries, bickerers, brasserie, brassiere, braveries, breweries, briberies, describer, prescribe, reedbirds, reimburse, riverbeds, robberies.

+3 letters: barberries, barretries, bayberries, berberines, berberises, bilberries, boxberries, brasseries, brassieres, breviaries, brogueries, broideries, brusquerie, cowberries, describers, dewberries, dogberries, embroiders, firebreaks, hagberries, herbivores, inkberries, mulberries, prescribed, prescriber, prescribes, redescribe, reimbursed, reimburses, respirable, reversible, reversibly, rubberizes, seborrheic, sweetbriar, sweetbrier, teaberries, waxberries.