Fruit vs. Berry

Fruit vs. Berry — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Fruit and Berry

Fruitnoun

(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.

Berrynoun

A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.

Fruitnoun

Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.

Berrynoun

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

Fruitnoun

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

Berrynoun

A coffee bean.

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Fruitnoun

Offspring from a sexual union.

Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

Berrynoun

One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

Fruitnoun

A homosexual or effeminate man.

Berrynoun

A police car.

Fruitnoun

modifier}} Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; of living things producing or consuming fruit.

Berrynoun

A mound; a barrow.

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Fruitverb

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Berrynoun

(dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.

Fruitnoun

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

Berrynoun

An excavation; a military mine.

Fruitnoun

the consequence of some effort or action;

he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies

Berryverb

To pick berries.

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

Fruitnoun

an amount of a product

Berryverb

To bear or produce berries.

Fruitverb

cause to bear fruit

Berryverb

(transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.

Fruitverb

bear fruit;

the trees fruited early this year

Berryverb

(transitive) To thresh (grain).

Berrynoun

any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves

Berrynoun

a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)

Berrynoun

United States rock singer (born in 1931)

Berryverb

pick or gather berries;

We went berrying in the summer