Berry

ber′i, n. a popular term for any small succulent fruit, but restricted in botanical language to simple fruits with pericarp succulent throughout, whether developed from superior (grape, potato, bitternut, belladonna, bryony, asparagus, tomato), or more commonly inferior ovary (gooseberry, currant, barberry, bilberry, .)—thus, strictly, the strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, are not berries.— v.i. to come into berry, to swell.— adj. Ber′ried , bearing berries. [A.S. berie .]