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 | - |
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 | - |
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 | - |
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 | - |
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 | - |
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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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 |
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 |
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 | - |
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 |
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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silverberry | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverbush |
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slurry | (noun) a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water | - |
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snakeberry | (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, redberry |
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snowberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba, waxberry |
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soapberry | (noun) a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | Synonyms: soapberry tree |
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sorry | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, regretful |
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(adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim |
(adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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starry | (adjective) abounding with or resembling stars | - |
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strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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(noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
(noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
sugarberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: hackberry |
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(noun) deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood | Synonyms: Celtis laevigata |
sunberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, wonderberry |
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tarry | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, resiny |
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(verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: linger |
(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around |
teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, 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: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |