Synonyms of the word berry


BERRYCULL - FRUIT - PICK - PLUCK

berry

  • n. A small fruit, of any one of many varieties.
  • n. (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
  • n. A coffee bean.
  • n. One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
  • v. To pick berries.
  • v. To bear or produce berries.
  • n. (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.
  • n. (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
  • n. An excavation; a military mine.
  • v. (transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
  • v. (transitive) To thresh (grain).

cull

  • v. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • v. To gather, collect.
  • v. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled…
  • v. (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
  • v. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  • n. A selection.
  • n. An organised killing of selected animals.
  • n. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
  • n. (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

fruit

  • n. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from…
  • n. Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from…
  • n. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
  • n. Offspring from a sexual union.
  • n. (colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual or effeminate man.
  • n. (as a modifier) Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
  • v. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

pluck

  • v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
  • v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
  • v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
  • v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
  • v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
  • v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
  • n. An instance of plucking.
  • n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

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