strawberry

en-noun

strawberry (countable and uncountable, plural strawberries)

→ Bengali: স্ট্রবেরি (sṭroberi)

→ Chichewa: sitiroberi

→ Gujarati: સ્ટ્રોબેરી (sṭroberī)

desc

→ Hindi: स्ट्रॉबेरी (sṭrŏberī)

→ Hindi: स्ट्रॉबेरी (sṭrŏberī)

→ Indonesian: stroberi

→ Kannada: ಸ್ಟ್ರಾಬೆರಿ (sṭrāberi)

→ Kashubian: stroberi (Canada, United States)

ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ

→ Lao: ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ (māk sa tǭ bœ̄ rī)

→ Lao: ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ (māk sa tǭ bœ̄ rī)

→ Malay: strawberi

สตรอว์เบอร์รี

→ Thai: สตรอว์เบอร์รี (sà-dtrɔɔ-bəə-rîi)

/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

/ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *strow-o-m
Proto-Germanic *strawą
Proto-West Germanic *strau
Old English strēaw
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Old English strēawberġe
Middle English strawbery
English strawberry
From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.

barren strawberry

Potentilla sterilis or Waldsteinia fragarioides

They went to pick strawberries today.

The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.

She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.

He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170:

Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).

strawberry:

A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.


strawberry

en-adj

strawberry (comparative strawberrier, superlative strawberriest)

strawberrier (comparative)
strawberriest (superlative)

/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

/ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/

ethyl methylphenylglycidate
ethyl methylphenylglycidate

Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.


raspberry

→ Japanese: ラズベリー (razuberī)

From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.

عُلَّيْق m (ʕullayq) (which also means blackberry)

Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.

The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.


raspberry

raspberry (comparative raspberrier, superlative raspberriest)

raspberrier (comparative)
raspberriest (superlative)

She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store

1985, Prince (lyrics and music), “Raspberry Beret”, in Around the World in a Day, performed by Prince and the Revolution:


raspberry

Cockney rhyming slang, from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it). Compare raspberry ripple = cripple.

Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massive raspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been an object lesson in how not to make a government announcement."

2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8:

(colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.


currant

(hurry–furry merger, cure–fir merger) courant

Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”). Cognate with Dutch krent. Doublet of Corinth.

bor

The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.


berry

→ Indonesian: beri

→ Japanese: ベリー (berī)

desc

→ Thai: เบอร์รี (bəə-rîi)

→ Thai: เบอร์รี (bəə-rîi)

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Middle English berye
English berry
From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją.
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.

etymon

the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice

the darker the berry, the sweeter the juice

(botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.

漿果

botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits


berry

en-verb

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

berries (present singular third-person)
berrying (participle present)
berried (participle past)
berried (past)

On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.

Partly because I always itched and prickled in a berry patch I may have been disinclined to nibble as I worked; but largely I think it was because I berried under a master strategist and I wanted to see how well we could coordinate our efforts...


lawyer

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.

A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)


blueberry

en-noun

blueberry (countable and uncountable, plural blueberries)

(countable) An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.


Avignon berry

The fruit of rock buckthorn, or Avignon buckthorn, of the species Rhamnus saxatilis, Rhamnus infectorius, and others of the same genus, used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow.


bilberry

Probably of North Germanic origin (Danish bøllebær), from Old Norse bolli (Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + ber.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.

kulumri

type of blueberry from the cowberry family — see also blueberry


mulberry

mulberry (countable and uncountable, plural mulberries)

From Middle English mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberġe (“mulberry”) (q.v.), and probably partly from Middle Low German mulbere (“mulberry”). Compare Dutch moerbezie, moerbei (“mulberry”), German Maulbeere (“mulberry”).

Different qualities of the Mulberry. Among the different species of the Mulberry, it is ascertained that the Italian, (Morus italica) is eaten by the silk worm, with eager appetite. It's fruit is very small, and of a pale rose colour.

1837, Luigi Tinelli, Hints on the Cultivation of the Mulberry, with Some General Observations on the Production of Silk, page 39:

Beyond the south end of the lake, the route lies across the plain of Lombardy, where the mulberry trees are evidence of the silk industry.

1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 729:

(countable) Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits.


blackberry

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.

absolute state like in Syriac but not attested

ܦܛܠ (pṭal) (indeclinable) (neither means blackberry reliably but also thornbush, bramble. briar)

פטל (*pṭal) (indeclinable) (neither means blackberry reliably but also thornbush, bramble. briar)

Rubus fruticosus
Rubus fruticosus#Translingual

A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.


hurtle

Possibly a clipping of hurtleberry, from Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).

cog

Vaccinia nigra, the blacke VVhortle, or Hurtle, is a baſe and lovve tree, or vvoodie plant, bringing foorth many branches of a cubite high, ſet full of ſmall leaues, of a darke greene colour, […]

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Whortes, or Whortle berries”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book III, page 1229:

hurtleberry

(obsolete, rare) Synonym of hurtleberry or whortleberry (“any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium; a berry of one of these shrubs”)


cowberry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea#Translingual

A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).


cranberry

en-noun

cranberry (countable and uncountable, plural cranberries)

→ Dutch: cranberry

→ German: Cranberry

Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m (which means and is cognate to crane) + Beere f (which means and is cognate to berry).

mountain cranberry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea; Actous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpina

(countable) A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.


gooseberry

From goose + berry. It is possible that the first element was originally something related to the gros- of French groseille and/or the kruis- of Dutch kruisbes but has been altered by folk etymology.

Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:

Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)


fraise

en-verb

fraise (third-person singular simple present fraises, present participle fraising, simple past and past participle fraised)

fraises (present singular third-person)
fraising (participle present)
fraised (participle past)
fraised (past)

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”).
Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.

cog

(transitive, archaic) To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.


elderberry

Etymology tree
Middle English eldre
English elder
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Middle English berye
English berry
English elderberry
Compound of elder + berry.

etymon

Any shrub or tree of the genus Sambucus;


loganberry

From Logan + berry, named for the American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841-1928).

Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:

A hybrid berry, produced by crossing a raspberry with a blackberry, considered a species Rubus loganobaccus, a variety Rubus ursinus var. loganobaccus, or a nothospecies Rubus × loganobaccus.


bramble

From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).

(chiefly Scotland) The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.


crowberry

From crow + berry. Apparently so-called due to birds' fondness for the fruit. Yet the dark color (compare Old Norse blár (“blue-black, like a raven's sheen”)) may be the main or another factor; compare Inuktitut paurngaq (“crowberry”) (allegedly meaning "which looks like soot").

noncog

Empetrum nigrum
Empetrum nigrum#Translingual

Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.

Empetrum nigrum; a species of crowberry.


cloudberry

Rubus chamaemorus
Rubus chamaemorus#Translingual

A species of slow-growing bramble, Rubus chamaemorus.


blackcap

Other times the cat would run off to the hunting grounds, either the swamps or the Astroni, and when the hunters shot down an oriole or a great tit or a blackcap [translating capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.

2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, II.4:

black-capped chickadee
black-capped chickadee

(obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).


blaeberry

From Middle English bloberi; equivalent to blae (“bluish gray”) + berry.

(Northern England, Scotland, dialect) The bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus.


dewberry

Rubus caesius
Rubus caesius#Translingual

Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.

American dewberry, species of Rubus sect. Flagellares

The purple to black berries of these plants.


hackberry

en-noun

hackberry (countable and uncountable, plural hackberries)

Lindheimer's hackberry (Celtis lindheimeri

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Celtis, widespread over the Northern Hemisphere, having small fruit.

Prunus padus, a species of cherry tree, of Eurasia, or its berry.


serviceberry

Compound of service (“sorb tree”) + berry. (The first part is from Latin sorbus, not English service (“assistance”).)

com+

Sorbus domestica
Sorbus domestica#Translingual

Sorbus torminalis
Sorbus torminalis#Translingual

(Europe) Several species of trees in the genus Sorbus, especially Sorbus domestica and Sorbus torminalis.

(Canada, US) Any plant of the genus Amelanchier of small deciduous trees and large shrubs in the family Rosaceae.


olallieberry

From Chinook Jargon olallie ("berry"), probably from Lower Chinook úlali ("camas patch"), from úlal ("camas") + -i, a deictic suffix; + berry.

A hybrid berry with a tart taste created by crossing a loganberry and a youngberry.


boysenberry

/ˈbɔɪzn̩ˌbɛɹi/

From Boysen + berry, named after its creator Rudolph Boysen.

A colour of the purple colour spectrum, based on the same fruit's colour, whose hexadecimal code is #873260, RGB is rgb(135, 50, 96), CMYK is (63%, 29%, 47%) and HSL is hsl(328°, 46%, 36%).


marionberry

Named for Marion County, Oregon, where it was developed, + berry.

A member of the blackberry family, a cross between the Chehalem berry and olallieberry blackberries.


buffaloberry

Any of several shrubs, of the genus Shepherdia, native to North America.


wolfberry

Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium.


red currant

/ˈɹɛdˌkʌɹənt/

/ˈɹɛdˌkɜɹənt/

/ˈɹɛdˌkʌɹənt/

And a hint of still waters, a stream, a brook, a rivulet, meandering with flashes of brilliance through the lush dense greenery, among shadowy plants that might have been blackberries or redcurrants, although what redcurrants and blackberries might be Yoel had not the faintest notion, and even the names themselves he only knew from books.

1989, Amos Oz, To Know A Woman, page 109:

Cultivated redcurrants are most closely related to Ribes rubrum, which like blackcurrants grow in northern Europe and northern Asia, although several other species have had a hand in the development of particular varieties; whitecurrants, for their part, are simply redcurrants with albino genes. Despite their similarities, the histories of blackcurrants and redcurrants in Britain are surprisingly distinct.

2009, Christopher Stocks, Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables, page 93:

Blackcurrants and redcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb grow amongst viburnums, hollyhocks, sweet williams, forsythia, and a medlar.

1989, Mirabel Osler, A Gentle Plea for Chaos, published 2011, page 173:

A deciduous shrub, Ribes rubrum, native to western Europe; any of certain cultivars of the shrub.


blackcap raspberry

en-noun

blackcap raspberry (plural blackcap raspberries)


whitebark raspberry

whitebark raspberry (plural whitebark raspberries)

A deciduous, viny shrub (Rubus leucodermis) with a pale, whitish bark.


huckleberry

Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.

cog

I'm your huckleberry.

(US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.


snowberry

From snow + berry, from the snow-white colour.

Himalayan snowberry (Gaultheria trichophylla

also Gaultheria, especially Gaultheria oppositifolia, and


juneberry

From June + berry, the berries typically ripening in June.

Wiegand juneberry (Amelanchier × wiegandii

Any of several North American trees of the genus Amelanchier, having white flowers and edible, purplish fruit.


bayberry

It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(Canada, US) The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.

The two North American genera are Myrica (bayberry) and Comptonia (sweet-fern).

2002, James Fralish, Scott Franklin, Taxonomy and Ecology of Woody Plants in North American Forests, Myricaceae (Bayberry or Wax-Myrtle Family), page 230:

Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.

[T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:

Laurus nobilis
Laurus nobilis#Translingual

The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).

West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.


barberry

From Middle English berberie, from Medieval Latin berberis, on which see Arabic بَرْبَارِيس (barbārīs). Doublet of berberis.

BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make a bole.

1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book VI, page 288:

Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.


lowbush blueberry

en-noun

lowbush blueberry (plural lowbush blueberries)

A wild North American blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, sometimes grown commercially for its fruit


highbush blueberry

highbush blueberry (plural highbush blueberries)

The common species of blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, grown for its fruit.


wild strawberry

wild strawberry (plural wild strawberries)

Fragaria vesca
Fragaria vesca#Translingual

A plant of the species of strawberry growing naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, Fragaria vesca.

a groundcover that resembles wild strawberries


salmonberry

From salmon + berry, since they were traditionally eaten with salmon by indigenous peoples.

A bush, Rubus spectabilis, found on the Pacific coast of North America.


batology

From Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “blackberry”) + -ology.

uder

[…]more than another that has always been clearly recognized by British botanists, it is R. leucostachys, in spite of the various forms, which, before they were detected as hybrids, were often a puzzle to our predecessors in British batology.

1905, Berthold Seemann, editor, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign, volume 43, page 202:

Further knowledge of Rubus plant geography is steadily emerging, particular[ly] as co-workers such as D. Grant and T. Schofield are also contributing substantially to Yorkshire batology.

1999, The Naturalist, volumes 124-127, page 112:

In Species Plantarum, in 1753, Linnaeus identified two European species of Rubus within the large five-petaled family Rosa, thus beginning one of taxonomy′s largest studies — batology.

2005, Lisa Robertson, “Rubus Armeniacus: A Common Architectural Decorative Motif in the Temperate Mesophytic Region”, in Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, page 125:

(botany) The scientific study of plants in the genus Rubus, commonly known as brambles.


black raspberry

en-noun

black raspberry (plural black raspberries)

A plant belonging to either of two closely related species, Rubus leucodermis or Rubus occidentalis, both native to North America.


whortleberry

An alteration of Middle English hurtilbery, hurtil-beri (see English hurtleberry), analysable as whortle + berry. Compare English huckleberry.

Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium:

Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or blue whortleberry);

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or red whortleberry);

Vaccinium uliginosum
Vaccinium uliginosum#Translingual

Vaccinium uliginosum (bog whortleberry or bilberry).


baneberry

red baneberry)

Actaea rubra (syn. Actaea erythrocarpa); chinaberry

A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga).


bakeapple

Supposedly from French baie, qu'appelle which roughly translates as "what's the name of that berry". This is very liably folk etymology, though—the more obvious derivation bake + apple, influenced by bake in composite words, is suggested by the Oxford English Dictionary.

(Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus


northern bilberry

northern bilberry (plural northern bilberries)


bog bilberry

A shrub native of the cool temperate areas of northern hemisphere, Vaccinium uliginosum, and the berry of that shrub.


lingonberry

From Swedish lingon (“cowberry, lingonberry”) + berry.

af

A berry-bearing shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.


youngberry

From Young + berry, named for its cultivator, Byrnes M. Young.

A hybrid between a blackberry and a dewberry of the rose family, first cultivated in the western United States.


boxberry

Gaultheria procumbens
Gaultheria procumbens#Translingual

A teaberry bush (Gaultheria procumbens).


checkerberry

From the chequer tree, which has fruits of a similar appearance.


teaberry

A berry which is the fruit of a small shrub native to northeastern North America, Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry, American wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry).

lamosalali

shrub Gaultheria procumbens and its berry


farkleberry

en-noun

farkleberry (countable and uncountable, plural farkleberries)

(uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.


thimbleberry

Rubus parviflorus, a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico.


chokeberry

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

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.


white currant

A deciduous shrub, a less sour and colourless cultivar of Ribes rubrum (red currant), though sometimes named Ribes sativum or Ribes silvestre, and sold as a different fruit.


bearberry

Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.

alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry, black bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpinus)


juniper berry

The berrylike female seed cone produced by the various species of junipers.


soopolallie

Borrowed from Chinook Jargon, from soop (“soap”) (from English) + olallie, ollalie (“berry”) (from a Kwak'wala or Chinook word for berries). Compare soapberry.

A variety of deciduous shrub (Shepherdia canadensis), the Canadian buffaloberry, the red fruit/berries of which may be used in the production of a frothy, aromatic drink.


saskatoon

From Cree ᒥᓵᐢᑿᑑᒥᐣ (misaaskwatoomin, “saskatoon berry”), from ᒥᓵᐢᑿᐟ (misaaskwat, “saskatoon shrub”) + ᒥᐣ (min, “berry”).

der

(Canadian Prairies) A shrub inhabiting western North America (Amelanchier alnifolia).


wineberry

From Middle English wynberie, wynberie (“a grape or some other kind of berry”), from Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīnabaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *wīnabasją (“wineberry; grape”), equivalent to wine + berry. Doublet of whimberry (“bilberry”).
Cognate with Dutch wijnbeer, West Frisian wynbei (“grape”), wiemer (“currant”), German Weinbeere (“grape”), Swedish vinbär (“currant”), Icelandic vínber (“grape”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

inh

The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.


jostaberry

From German Jostabeere, itself derived from Johannisbeere and Stachelbeere.

A fruit made by crossing several members of the Ribes genus, including blackcurrant and gooseberry.


mountain bearberry

en-noun

mountain bearberry (plural mountain bearberries)

Arctostaphylos alpina
Arctostaphylos alpina#Translingual

A species of bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpina).


arctic raspberry

arctic raspberry (plural arctic raspberries)

A species of slow-growing bramble belonging to the rose family and bearing a dark red, sweet fruit; Rubus arcticus, native to arctic, subarctic, and alpine regions.


goji

Marketing coinage, likely an altered pronunciation of Mandarin 枸杞 (gǒuqǐ). The earliest known usage in print was in a 1996 publication. The first usage in the LexisNexis database is a 2002 newspaper article. Wider usage began in 2003 and 2004.

A fruit in the genus Lycium, especially in commercial products where it is promoted as a superfruit.


raspberrying

The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.

1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347:

Sitting down is the secret of good raspberrying. It is also easier on your pants and nerves, by the way. Raspberries call for a sitting posture.

1944, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Mainstays of Maine, The Macmillan Company, published 1944, page 88:

During July and August, church, Sunday School, and prayer meeting returned, and there were strawberrying, swimming, the Pondlily Walk, blueberrying, raspberrying, blackberrying, […]

1957, Lura Beam, A Maine Hamlet, Yankee Books, page 138:


salal

Borrowed from Chinook Jargon from Chinook.

Down below, a ragged line of wolves ran silently, in single file, following a deer trail through the salal.

2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 186:

A leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible sepals and leaves.


tayberry

From Tay + berry, after the River Tay in Scotland.

A cultivated shrub of the genus Rubus fruticosus x idaeus, a cross between the blackberry (R. fruiticosus) and raspberry (R. idaeus).

Taybeere

cross between the blackberry and raspberry


twinberry

A North American species of honeysuckle, Lonicera involucrata.


partridgeberry

Mitchella repens
Mitchella repens#Translingual

Any of various plants, including
squaw vine, Mitchella repens


wonderberry

Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum#Translingual

The sunberry (in all senses: Solanum retroflexum, Solanum nigrum, and their respective berries).


brambleberry

From Middle English *brambelberie, *brembelberie, from Old English brǣmelberġe, equivalent to bramble + berry.


sunberry

A historic heirloom shrub, Solanum retroflexum.

The dark blue-purple fruit of Solanum retroflexum, often combined with sugar in desserts.

European black nightshade
European black nightshade

The European black nightshade, Solanum nigrum.

The dark poisonous berry of Solanum nigrum.


pokeberry

I said that ink made from pokeberries was better than that made from inkballs. I said that inkballs on oak trees were scarce. All the other students laughed. They bought commercial ink at the stores.

considerin in her mind ... iffen the pleasure o gatherin some pokeberries an drawin dark purple picthures on a flat rock wi em would be worth the trouble...

2014, Lewis Carroll, Byron W. Sewell, Victoria J. Sewell, Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland, Evertype, →ISBN, page 5:

Phytolacca americana
Phytolacca americana#Translingual

Synonym of pokeweed (the plant Phytolacca americana or its dark red or purple fruit).


sheepberry

Viburnum lentago
Viburnum lentago#Translingual

The plant Viburnum lentago, native to the northeastern and midwestern United States and southern Canada.


hindberry

From Middle English *hindberie, from Old English hindberie, hindberġe, hindberiġe, equivalent to hind + berry. Compare Dutch hennebes, hinnebes, German Himbeere, Danish hindbær.

[…] they made considerable progress in the art of embalming the wild fruits of their native land, so that they might command cranberries and hindberries at all times and seasons.

1834, The Hobart Town Magazine, volume 2, page 323:


whimberry

From earlier winberry, apparently a variant of wineberry (Middle English winberie) with regular shortening of the first vowel before a consonant cluster; in wineberry, this was prevented or reversed due to analogy.
The assimilation of /nb/ to /mb/ seen in some forms is to be expected (compare hemp < Old English henep). Other forms show the influence of unrelated words; the consonantism of forms with initial wh- is probably due to the influence of whin, while windberry clearly represents remodelling as wind + berry.

Another variable species: when fed upon whimberry or cowberry it is a most distinct-looking insect, often with the white patches placed in a triangle, one on the disk, one on the hind margin, and the usual one: no band.

1871, C. S. Gregson, “Varieties and Aberrations of Lepidoptera”, in Edward Newman, editor, The Entomologist, volume V, London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., page 75:

The lovely pink bloom of the whimberry stalk drops on the turf as the inner part knits itself into hard, green, beady fruit, whilst the leafage changes from a soft green to yellowish brown.

1900, Helen Brierley, Morgan Brierley, a Memoir: With a Selection from His Writings, Rochdale: James Clegg, page 260:

She made whimberry tarts and we ate them with thick, yellow cream until we were tight as drums.

2011 December 30, Nina Bawden, In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, page 38:

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

(dialectal) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).


hurtleberry

From Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”); further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).


veitchberry

From Veitch + berry, from the surname of the men who raised it.

A form of loganberry: specifically, a cross between R. fruticosus and R. idaeus.


red huckleberry

en-noun

red huckleberry (plural red huckleberries)

A deciduous shrub native to west coast of North America growing to 8-foot tall (Vaccinium parvifolium).


knotberry

From knot + berry, because of its knotted stems.

(archaic) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus.


Pacific blackberry

Pacific blackberry (plural Pacific blackberries)


Pacific dewberry

Pacific dewberry (plural Pacific dewberries)


California dewberry

California dewberry (plural California dewberries)


California blackberry

California blackberry (plural California blackberries)


Chehalem blackberry

Chehalem blackberry (plural Chehalem blackberries)


Santiam berry

California blackberry
California blackberry

A California blackberry and loganberry hybrid berry plant and its fruit

mora santiam

a California blackberry and loganberry hybrid berry plant and its fruit


Armenian blackberry

Armenian blackberry (plural Armenian blackberries)

Himalayan blackberry
Himalayan blackberry#English


Himalayan blackberry

Himalayan blackberry (plural Himalayan blackberries)

Rubus armeniacus, a blackberry species native to West Asia


Douglas berry

Rubus ursinus, a blackberry or dewberry species and its fruit.


Chehalem berry

Chehalem berry (plural Chehalem berries)

Himalayan blackberry
Himalayan blackberry

A Himalayan blackberry and Santiam berry hybrid berry plant and its fruit


alkekengi

Through French alkékenge, Spanish alquequenje, from Arabic كَاكَنْج (kākanj).


apple-berry

A vine or low shrub native to Australia, Billardiera scandens in the taxonomic family Pittosporaceae, which bears edible fruits said to taste like stewed apples.


tummelberry

From Tummel + berry, after the river in Scotland.

A hybrid fruit resembling a large raspberry.


skokeberry

Perhaps a half-translation of an Algonquian term for "red berry" (compare Abenaki mkw-, mskw- (“red”)), in reference to the berries' red colour. Alternatively, perhaps a half-translation of an Algonquian term such as Penobscot *skokimin (“snake berry”), in reference to the fact that the plant is poisonous. Compare scoke.

(US) A pokeberry; a pokeweed (the plant Phytolacca americana or its dark red or purple fruit).


bush lawyer

Any of the species of climbing blackberry plants in subgenus Rubus subg. Micranthobatus, found in New Zealand.


highbush cranberry

highbush cranberry (plural highbush cranberries)

Viburnum opulus
Viburnum opulus#Translingual

Viburnum edule
Viburnum edule#Translingual

A shrub in the genus Viburnum having acidic red cranberry-like berries, belonging to the North American species Viburnum trilobum, or to the related species Viburnum opulus (European) or Viburnum edule (North American).


saskatoon blueberry

saskatoon blueberry (plural saskatoon blueberries)


muntrie

(usually in the plural) Kunzea pomifera, a low-growing plant of southern Australia.


mountain cranberry

mountain cranberry (plural mountain cranberries)

Mountain bearberry
mountain bearberry#English

Mountain bearberry (Actous alpina (syn. Arctostaphylos alpina).


brierberry

/ˈbɹaɪə(ɹ)ˌbɛɹi/

a prickly bush found in the eastern United States, Rubus cuneifolius


pineberry

A white variety of strawberry with a pineapple flavour.


wildberry

wildberry (countable and uncountable, plural wildberries)

wildberry flavor (Popsicle Water Ice)

1992, Corinne T. Netzer, The Corinne T. Netzer 1992 Calorie Counter, page 72:

Spoon 2 tablespoons of the wildberry gelatin mixture into each of the cups of orange gelatin mixture.

2003, W. Park Kerr, Viva Margarita, page 31:

Wildberry Smoothie Large, 24 fl. oz.

2009, Alex A. Lluch, The Complete Calorie Fat & Carb Counter, page 53:

(uncountable) A combination of wild cherries and strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or other berries. Used in ice cream and other food products, as well as in cosmetics.


Chinese hackberry

Chinese hackberry (plural Chinese hackberries)

A tree, Celtis sinensis, of the family Cannabaceae and native to slopes in East Asia.


bramberry

From Middle English bramber, brember, from Old English brēmber, from Proto-West Germanic *brāmabaʀi. Doublet of framboise. Cognate with German Brombeere. Related with bramble, brambleberry.

Ellagic acid is the most abundant phenolic compound in cloudberry and red bramberry (Häkkinen et al. 1999). In red berries the major flavonol group present is the anthocyanins.

2010, Kjell Nilsson, Marcus Sangster, Christos Gallis, Forests, Trees and Human Health:


earthberry

From earth + berry. First attested in the 1800s, mostly in texts about or translated from German or other languages which use similar terms, of which it is likely a calque: German Erdbeere, Danish jordbær, etc. Compare Old English eorþberġe (“strawberry”, literally “earthberry”).

cog

The berries of the islands are sweet black currants, cranberries or goosh, strawberries and earthberries, together with the diddy, mountain, and malvina berries common to the Falkland Islands.

1869 July 1, Thomas Bridges, “Fireland and its people”, in The South American Missionary Magazine, volume III, page 114:

One time, the poor man had had no bread in the cupboard for a whole week, and the family lived on roots and stewed earthberries.

1882, Jeremiah Curtin, “The Round Stone (A Hungarian Folk-story)”, in St. Nicholas, volume 9:

Wild Strawberries (Fragaria virginiana): A member of the rose family, the strawberry also has the nickname earthberry. No one could mistake this plant's succulent red and juicy berries.

It didn't take long for the waves of heat to reach him, and with them came the scents of tempanuts, earthberries, and honey.

2012, Lena Horn, The Celestial Saga: Forgotten Fox:

One evening in Norway we had earthberries and cream just as Mr Haythornthwaite, the Englishman who visited our town when I was a child, would have had in Norway in the nine-teen-twenties.

2013, Desmond Hogan, Farewell to Prague:

The Portuguese word is also a mystery. In northern Europe it is simply the earth-berry due to the plant's habit of creeping along the ground.

2014, Denis Dunstone, Why Is an Apple a Pomme?:

(rare, nonstandard) A berry whose fruit lies upon the ground, in particular the strawberry (plant and fruit)


Young dewberry

en-noun

Young dewberry (plural Young dewberries)


canefruit

canefruit (countable and uncountable, plural canefruits)

Fruit grown on canes, such as raspberries and blackberries.


tazziberry

Coined as an Australian trademark, from Tasmania berry.


ugniberry

ugniberry (countable and uncountable, plural ugniberries)

(countable) A shrub bearing that berry, of species Ugni molinae, related to the myrtle.


fraughan

Borrowed from Irish fraochán (“blueberry, bilberry”).

bor+

Unlike the Wicklow Gold Mines at Mount Croughan, / Where thrives that Lilliputian Tree, the Fraughan.

1824, Rory O'Reilly, Retrospection, Dublin: J. Carrick & Son, page 2:

His bare feet, as they trod the heather and fraughan beneath them , sent a thrill of primitive ecstacy to his expectant mind.

1906, W. M. Letts, “Paudeen in the Woods”, in Temple Bar, volume 1, London: Macmillan & Co., page 553:

Over the centuries and over the seasons, fruit gathering became woven into the fabric of Irish rural life and the fraughan, being the first of the wild berries to ripen, was the occasion for an outing.

2018 May 3, Margaret Hickey, Ireland’s Green Larder: The Definitive History of Irish Food, Unbound, →ISBN, page 38:

(Ireland) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).


blue raspberry

(marketing) An artificial flavor used in candy and soft drinks, which, despite the name, is not derived from any species of raspberry. It is often used with bright blue synthetic food coloring.


kotataberry

Duyck was a farmer who grew the kotataberry, you see, which no one's ever heard of. And Duyck thought if we named the marionberry the state fruit, no one would ever hear of the kotataberry ever again.

2017 February 14, Matthew Korfhage, “Oregon Legislature Finally Introduces Bill to Make Marionberry Pie the State Pie”, in Willamette Week:

There’s nothing like picking plump, sun-warmed fruit (one for the bucket, one for you) and at this iconic Whakatāne attraction, you can do just that. Strawberries, blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries and blueberries are on offer as well as Ranui berries and kotataberries.

2020 December 12, Sharon Stephenson, “Three of the best 'pick your own' fruit farms”, in Stuff:

A blackberry cultivar developed in Oregon, United States, having small to medium-sized berries of a purple-black color and longish shape.


Enslen's blackberry

en-noun

Enslen's blackberry (plural Enslen's blackberries)

Enslen's dewberry
Enslen's dewberry#English


Enslen's dewberry

Enslen's dewberry (plural Enslen's dewberries)

Named after the botanist Aloysius Enslen.


strawberry raspberry

strawberry raspberry (plural strawberry raspberries)

A red-fruited plant of species Rubus illecebrosus.


balloon berry

strawberry raspberry
strawberry raspberry#English


golden currant

The fruit of various shrubs of the species Ribes aureum.


wax currant

The fruit of various shrubs of the species Ribes cereum.


snow currant

The fruit of various shrubs of the species Ribes niveum.


averin

Rubus chamaemorus
Rubus chamaemorus#Translingual

(Scotland) cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus.

(Scotland) cloudberry, fruit of Rubus chamaemorus.


strasberry

A variety of strawberry with a raspberrylike appearance.


bokbunja

A Korean raspberry bush (Rubus crataegifolius)