baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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(noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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bayberry | (noun) West Indian tree; source of bay rum | Synonyms: bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris, wild cinnamon |
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(noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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(noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
berry | (noun) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves | - |
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(noun) a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) | - |
(verb) pick or gather berries | - |
berrylike | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: baccate |
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bilberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: European blueberry, whortleberry |
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(noun) erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries | Synonyms: mountain blue berry, thin-leaved bilberry, Viccinium membranaceum |
(noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
blackberry | (noun) large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus | - |
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(noun) bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle | Synonyms: blackberry bush |
(verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
blaeberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
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bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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(noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
blurry | (adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy |
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boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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(noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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burry | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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carry | (noun) the act of carrying something | - |
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(verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, expect, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
(verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, comport, conduct, deport, do |
(verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) include, as on a list | - |
(verb) sing or play against other voices or parts | - |
(verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: convey, express |
(verb) pass on a communication | - |
(verb) win in an election | - |
(verb) secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions) | - |
(verb) cover a certain distance or advance beyond | - |
(verb) have a certain range | - |
(verb) be successful in | - |
(verb) drink alcohol without showing ill effects | Synonyms: hold |
(verb) be able to feed | - |
(verb) support or hold in a certain manner | Synonyms: bear, hold |
(verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: transport |
(verb) propel | Synonyms: dribble |
(verb) bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of | - |
(verb) propel or give impetus to | - |
(verb) include as the content; broadcast or publicize | Synonyms: run |
(verb) bear (a crop) | - |
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: channel, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
(verb) pursue a line of scent or be a bearer | - |
(verb) transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication | - |
(verb) have on hand | Synonyms: stock, stockpile |
(verb) capture after a fight | - |
(verb) have on the surface or on the skin | - |
(verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: post |
(verb) extend to a certain degree | - |
(verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: persuade, sway |
(verb) compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance | - |
(verb) take further or advance | - |
(verb) have with oneself; have on one's person | Synonyms: pack, take |
(verb) be necessarily associated with or result in or involve | - |
(verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, contain, hold |
(verb) be equipped with (a mast or sail) | - |
(verb) have or possess something abstract | - |
(verb) have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence | - |
(verb) keep up with financial support | - |
(verb) be conveyed over a certain distance | - |
carryall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: holdall, tote, tote bag |
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carrycot | (noun) box-shaped baby bed with handles (for a baby to sleep in while being carried) | - |
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checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(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 | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
cherry | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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(noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cerise, cherry red |
(noun) a red fruit with a single hard stone | - |
(noun) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood | Synonyms: cherry tree |
(noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry | - |
cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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(noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
chinaberry | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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(noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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(noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
cloudberry | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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coralberry | (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, spiceberry |
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(noun) North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
cowberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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cranberry | (noun) very tart red berry used for sauce or juice | - |
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(noun) any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries | - |
crowberry | (noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
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curry | (noun) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice | - |
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(verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: dress, groom |
(verb) treat by incorporating fat | - |
(verb) season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking | - |
currycomb | (noun) a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses | - |
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(verb) clean (a horse) with a currycomb | - |
dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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dewberry | (noun) blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes | - |
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(noun) any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America | Synonyms: dewberry bush, running blackberry |
elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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(noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
equerry | (noun) an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles | - |
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(noun) a personal attendant of the British royal family | - |
farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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ferry | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferrying |
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(noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferryboat |
(verb) travel by ferry | - |
(verb) transport by ferry | - |
(verb) transport from one place to another | - |
ferryboat | (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferry |
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ferrying | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferry |
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ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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flurry | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, fuss, hustle, stir |
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(noun) a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that) | Synonyms: snow flurry |
(verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off |
(verb) move in an agitated or confused manner | - |
foxberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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furry | (adjective) covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs | Synonyms: furred |
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gallberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, Ilex glabra, inkberry |
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gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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(verb) divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts | - |
gharry | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage in India | - |
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gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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(noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
groundberry | (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 | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia | Synonyms: Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum |
grouseberry | (noun) shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries | Synonyms: grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium |
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hackberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: sugarberry |
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(noun) any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits | Synonyms: nettle tree |
hagberry | (noun) small cherry much liked by birds | - |
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harry | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes | Synonyms: ravage |
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(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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(noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
(noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
hurry | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, rush, rushing |
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(noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation |
(noun) a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry | Synonyms: haste |
(verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, look sharp, rush |
(verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: rush |
(verb) move very fast | Synonyms: speed, travel rapidly, zip |
hurrying | (adjective) moving with great haste | Synonyms: scurrying |
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(noun) changing location rapidly | Synonyms: speed, speeding |
inkberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, gallberry, Ilex glabra |
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inmarry | (verb) marry within one's own tribe or group | - |
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intermarry | (verb) marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group | - |
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jamberry | (noun) annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: Mexican husk tomato, Physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo |
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(noun) Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes | Synonyms: miltomate, Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo |
juneberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry |
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knobkerry | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerrie |
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lingberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
loganberry | (noun) large red variety of the dewberry | - |
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(noun) red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California | Synonyms: Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus |
longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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(noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
lorry | (noun) a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides | Synonyms: camion |
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(noun) a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides | - |
maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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marlberry | (noun) tropical American shrub or small tree with brown wood and dark berries | Synonyms: Ardisia escallonoides, Ardisia paniculata |
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marry | (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, wed |
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(verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: splice, tie, wed |
mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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merry | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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(adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, gay |
(adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, mirthful |
merrymaker | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: reveler, reveller |
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merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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miscarry | (verb) suffer a miscarriage | - |
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(verb) be unsuccessful | Synonyms: fail, go wrong |
mismarry | (verb) marry an unsuitable partner | - |
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mulberry | (noun) sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus | - |
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(noun) any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry | Synonyms: mulberry tree |
parry | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, counterpunch |
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(noun) (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword | - |
(verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, put off, sidestep, skirt |
(verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, deflect |
partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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perry | (noun) a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider | - |
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poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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quarry | (noun) animal hunted or caught for food | Synonyms: prey |
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(noun) a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate | Synonyms: pit, stone pit |
(noun) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence | Synonyms: fair game, prey, target |
(verb) extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry | - |
quarrying | (noun) the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry | - |
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quarryman | (noun) a man who works in a quarry | Synonyms: quarrier |
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raspberry | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, razz, razzing, snort |
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(noun) red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries | - |
(noun) woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries | Synonyms: raspberry bush |
redberry | (noun) small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries | Synonyms: red-berry, Rhamnus croceus |
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(noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, snakeberry |
remarry | (verb) marry, not for the first time | - |
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rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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rowanberry | (noun) decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree | - |
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salmonberry | (noun) large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus spectabilis |
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(noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, thimbleberry |
(noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus |
sandberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, wild cranberry |
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scurry | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scamper, scramble |
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(verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scuttle, skitter |
scurrying | (adjective) moving with great haste | Synonyms: hurrying |
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serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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(noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
shadberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry |
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sherry | (noun) dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif | - |
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