Fruit vs. Berry
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.
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.
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 policiesBerryverb
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 yearBerryverb
(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
