Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or bearing berries.
- adjective Resembling a berry or berries.
- adjective Bearing eggs. Used especially of egg-bearing crustaceans or fishes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with berries: as, “the berried holly,”
- Of the form or nature of a berry; baccate.
- Having eggs or spawn, as a female lobster or other crustacean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
berry . - adjective Furnished with berries.
- adjective Consisting of a berry;
baccate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing or bearing berries
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Examples
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The process began when licensed local fishermen brought in pregnant females - known as berried hens.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Now I could cut some berried sprigs to stick behind picture frames in our house this festive season, then burn them on Twelfth Night.
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It berried early during the warm sunny days of autumn and looked unseasonably odd until surrounding trees dropped their leaves and wintry skies set its clusters of fat pillar-box red berries alight.
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I had some trouble coming up with a recipe this time — I am a little berried out, I am not a fan of stone fruits, and I already did lemon for them twice.
Archive 2008-07-01 Laura 2008
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I had some trouble coming up with a recipe this time — I am a little berried out, I am not a fan of stone fruits, and I already did lemon for them twice.
Cinnamon Chip Bundt Cake For Playgroup Laura 2008
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The dusk momentarily heightened all the colors of the countryside, lighting the land with jewels; a glowing emerald in the hollows, a lovely shadowed amethyst among the clumps of heather, and burning rubies on the red-berried rowan trees that crowned the hills.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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A nap berried in small purry kittehs duz wunners fur mood!
Space Cat One, ready for teleportation - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Instead she glides on berried slopes where last October all the sweet and tang of summer came to point and dropletted each huckled branch or August's shallows full of sockeye
THE BRAIN OF A POET Maggie Jochild 2007
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Yu leefs yur joos fur a sekkund an yu haz a kitteh hed berried en yur glaz.
it’s ok, answer the - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Oh well… Seanya in bed still, had moarning meds, an iz berried in kittehs nao tehy haz had brekkyfast.
hmmm..lets see, standard master lock - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
hernesheir commented on the word berried
Said of a crustacean bearing eggs.
December 28, 2010
bilby commented on the word berried
Phew. For a moment there I was worried it might be a Greek lobster with gifts.
December 28, 2010