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berry
     1. n. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
     2. n. (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
     3. n. A coffee bean.
     4. n. One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
     5. n. (slang) a police car
     6. v. To pick berries.
           On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.
     7. v. To bear or produce berries.
     8. n. (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
     9. n. (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
     10. n. An excavation; a military mine.
     11. v. To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
     12. v. To thresh (grain).

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Example Sentences

He hasn't told me to rub myself with berry juice, either. 



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