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berried

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Verb

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berried

  1. simple past and past participle of berry

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berried (comparative more berried, superlative most berried)

  1. Bearing berries.
    • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. [], →OCLC:
      The kissing-bunch, of berried holly hung with bright and glittering things, spun slowly over Mrs Morel's head as she trimmed her little tarts in the kitchen.
      Penguin 2006, p. 104:
    • 2013, David Williams, A Little Course in Wine Tasting, page 44:
      This style of wine uses small-berried, thick-skinned grapes which produce less juice than those used for crisp white wines, but with more concentration and weight.
  2. Consisting of a berry; baccate.
    a berried shrub

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