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Berry

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

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Baneberry 76% connected

A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

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Bilberry 76% connected

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.

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Blackberry 76% connected

The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis…

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Blueberry 76% connected

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead…

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Boxberry 76% connected

The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).

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Checkerberry 76% connected

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

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Cowberry 76% connected

A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.

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Cranberry 76% connected

A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or c…

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Currant 76% connected

A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

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Dewberry 76% connected

The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis a…

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Hackberry 76% connected

A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United…

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Huckleberry 76% connected

The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and f…

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Juneberry 76% connected

The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry.

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Mulberry 76% connected

The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.

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Persimmon 76% connected

An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and a…

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Raspberry 76% connected

The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.

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Strawberry 76% connected

A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many variet…

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Teaberry 76% connected

The checkerberry.

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Whortleberry 76% connected

In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.

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Wintergreen 76% connected

A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

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Blackberry 76% connected

The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis…

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Cull 76% connected

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

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Fruit 76% connected

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; --…

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Pluck 76% connected

To pull; to draw.

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