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A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

A shrub (Prunus Padus ) found in Northern and Central Europe. It bears small black cherries.

Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spæt'lum.

several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

The bilberry. [North of Eng. & Scot.]

See Blaeberry.

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

The wintergreern. (Gaultheria procumbens). [Local, U.S.]

A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.

The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.