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The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry.

The cloudberry (Rudus Chamæmorus); -- so called from its knotted stems.

The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.

Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.

See Sheepberry.

A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla. [Written also nisberry.]

The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.

The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

t of the Rubus Idæus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red and the white raspberry.

One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself.

The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrub found from California northwards. The berries are about the size of a common grape and of a dark purple color.

(V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.

A tree or shrub (Elæagnus argentea) with silvery foliage and fruit. Gray.

n United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America. Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping.

Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; -- also called soap tree.

A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry. [U. S.]

A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species. Strawberry…

The checkerberry.

A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

The wax-covered fruit of the wax myrtle, or bayberry. See Bayberry, and Candleberry tree.