(ber′ē) noun plural ber·ries
1. Any small, succulent fruit: the black berry, strawberry, gooseberry.
2. Bot. A simple fruit with the seeds in a juicy pulp, as the tomato, grape, and currant. ◆ Collateral adjective: baccate.
3. A coffee bean; also, the dry kernel of various grains.
4. Something likened to a berry, as an egg of a crustacean.
5. Slang A dollar.
—v.i. ber·ried, ber·ry·ing
1. To form or bear berries.
2. To gather berries. ◆ Homophone: bury. [OE berie]
—ber′ried adjective

(be·rē′)
A region and former province of central France. Also Ber·ri′.