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The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze. Dr. Prior.

In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.

The bilberry.

An American shrub (Symphoricarpus occidentalis) which bears soft white berries.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

n involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

ant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina al…

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

tion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.

Having the form of a berry.

An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

A berry, particularly of the laurel. [Obs.]

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

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

The black raspberry.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.