berry : Idioms & Phrases

A`vignon" ber"ry

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

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• noun creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
  salmonberry; bakeapple; Rubus chamaemorus; dwarf mulberry; cloudberry.
  

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• noun North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets
  bulblet fern; bulblet bladder fern; Cystopteris bulbifera.
  

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• noun bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas
  rougeberry; bloodberry; rouge plant; Rivina humilis.
  

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• noun fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments
  buckthorn berry.
  

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• (Bot.), a shrub of the Upper Missouri (Sherherdia argentea) with acid edible red berries.

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• noun United States rock singer (born in 1931)
  Berry; Charles Edward Berry.
  

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• noun spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries
  Christmasberry; Lycium carolinianum.
  
• noun ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia
  toyon; tollon; Photinia arbutifolia; Heteromeles arbutifolia; Christmasberry.
  

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• noun United States rock singer (born in 1931)
  Berry; Charles Edward Berry.
  

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• noun a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
  coffee bean; coffee.
  

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• noun huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
  dangleberry; Gaylussacia frondosa.
  

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• noun low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries
  Vaccinium pallidum; dryland blueberry.
  

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• (Bot.), the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment.

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• noun evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries
  evergreen winterberry; Ilex glabra; inkberry; gallberry.
  

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• (Bot.), the red currant; so called from its transparent red color.

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• noun small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
  Styphelia humifusum; groundberry; cranberry heath; native cranberry; Astroloma humifusum.
  
• noun creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
  teaberry; wintergreen; groundberry; Gaultheria procumbens; checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; mountain tea.
  

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• noun shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries
  Vaccinium scoparium; grouseberry; grouse whortleberry.
  

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• noun tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp
  Melicocca bijuga; genip; Spanish lime; Spanish lime tree; ginep; mamoncillo; Melicocca bijugatus.
  

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• containing ova or spawn.

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• . (Bot.) Same as Cocculus indicus.

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• (Bot.), the fruit of the West Indian shrub Randia aculeata, used as a blue dye.

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• . (Bot.) (a) A shrub of the Holly family (Ilex glabra), found in sandy grounds along the coast from New England to Florida, and producing a small black berry. (b) The West Indian indigo berry. See Indigo.

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• noun notable English cricketer (1882-1963)
  Hobbs; Sir Jack Hobbs.
  

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• noun berrylike cone of a common juniper; used in making gin
  
• noun berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
  

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• noun berrylike fruit of a plant of the genus Juniperus especially the berrylike cone of the common juniper
  

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• noun slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds
  Gaultheria hispidula; creeping snowberry; moxie plum.
  

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• noun deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers
  privet andromeda; maleberry; Lyonia ligustrina; he-huckleberry.
  

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• (Bot.), a kind of coffee. See Pea berry.

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• noun an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves
  bog bilberry; bog whortleberry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum.
  

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• (Bot.), the small cranberry (Vaccinium Oxycoccus).

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• noun erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries
  Viccinium membranaceum; thin-leaved bilberry; bilberry.
  

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• noun graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine
  makomako; wineberry; Aristotelia racemosa; Aristotelia serrata.
  

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O"so-ber`ry noun

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

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• . (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant (Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself . (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself.

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• a kind of a coffee bean or grain which grows single, and is round or pea-shaped; often used adjectively; as, pea-berry coffee.

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• the fruit of Rhamnus infectorius, a kind of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow, and imported chiefly from Trebizond.

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• noun tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
  scoke; Phytolacca americana; poke; garget.
  

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• (Bot.), the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed.

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• noun Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
  black nightshade; poisonberry; Solanum nigrum; common nightshade.
  

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• noun weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers; roundish berry widely used to curdle milk; central United States to South America
  silver-leaved nettle; silver-leaved nightshade; trompillo; purple nightshade; silverleaf nightshade; white horse nettle; Solanum elaeagnifolium.
  

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• noun creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
  bunchberry; Cornus canadensis; dwarf cornel; crackerberry.
  

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• noun Eurasian shrub
  Sambucus racemosa; European red elder.
  
• noun common North American shrub or small tree
  American red elder; Sambucus pubens; stinking elder.
  

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• noun small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries
  Rhamnus croceus; redberry.
  
• noun North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries
  red baneberry; snakeberry; redberry; Actaea rubra.
  

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Sal"al-ber`ry noun

Etymology

Probably of American Indian origin.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.

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• noun white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
  Rubus parviflorus; salmonberry; thimbleberry.
  

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• (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus.

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• noun evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
  mountain box; creashak; common bearberry; wild cranberry; mealberry; bear's grape; sandberry; hog cranberry; Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; red bearberry.
  

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• noun deciduous shrub of eastern Asia bearing decorative bright blue fruit
  Symplocus paniculata; Asiatic sweetleaf.
  

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• (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service tree. In British America the name is especially applied to that of the several species or varieties of the shad bush (Amelanchier.)

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• noun deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny
  Elaeagnus augustifolia; Russian olive.
  
• noun deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits
  Elaeagnus commutata; silver-bush; silverberry; silverbush.
  

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• black currants; so called because used to cure the quinsy. Dr. Prior.

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• (Bot.), the hackberry.

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• (Bot.), the white bryony.

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• (Bot.), a West Indian name for the fruit of certain kinds of nightshade (Solanum mammosum, and S. torvum).

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• noun a grain of wheat
  
• noun grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
  wheat.
  

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• noun yew of southeastern China, differing from the Old World yew in having white berries
  Pseudotaxus chienii.
  

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• (Bot.), the name of several American shrubs (Ilex verticillata, I. lævigata, etc.) of the Holly family, having bright red berries conspicuous in winter.

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• noun fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments
  buckthorn berry.
  

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• . (Bot.) Same as Persian berry, under Persian.

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