different between chokeberry vs berry

English

Etymology

choke +? berry, describing the astringency of the fruits, which are inedible when raw.

Noun

chokeberry (plural chokeberries)

1. Either of two species in Aronia, formerly and sometimes in Photinia, deciduous shrubs, native to Russia and eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.
2. The fruit of such a shrub.

Derived terms

• black chokeberry
• red chokeberry
• purple chokeberry

Translations

Further reading

• chokeberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aronia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Aronia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• chokeberry at USDA Plants database

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??i/, enPR: b?'ri
• Rhymes: -?ri
• Homophones: bury, Barry (in accents with the Mary–marry–merry merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English berye, from Old English ber?e, from Proto-West Germanic *ba?i, from Proto-Germanic *bazj?.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.

The slang sense “police car” may come from the lights on the vehicles’ roofs.

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
2. (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
3. A coffee bean.
4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Travis to this entry?)

5. (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
6. (US, slang, dated) A dollar.
   • 1921, Collier's (volume 67, page 365)

     Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!

Usage notes

Many fruits commonly regarded as berries, such as strawberries and raspberries, are not berries in the botanical sense, while many fruits which are berries in the botanical sense are not regarded as berries in common parlance, such as bananas and pumpkins.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ber?)
• ? Thai: ??????? (b??-rîi)

Translations

References

Verb

berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)

1. To pick berries.

   On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.
2. To bear or produce berries.

Usage notes

• Unlikely to be used to refer to commercial harvesting of berries.

Derived terms

• berrying

Etymology 2

From Middle English ber?e, berghe, from Old English beor?e, dative form of beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain, hill”). More at barrow.

Alternative forms

• berye, berie

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bery (“a burrow”). More at burrow.

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
2. An excavation; a military mine.

Etymology 4

From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ?ebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjan? (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”).

Cognate with Scots berry, barry (“to thresh, thrash”), German beren (“to beat, knead”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), Latin feri? (“strike, hit”, verb).

Verb

berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)

1. (transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
2. (transitive) To thresh (grain).

Anagrams

• Bryer