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Definition of Berrylike
1. Adjective. Resembling a berry.
Definition of Berrylike
1. Adjective. Resembling a berry ¹
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Definition of Berrylike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Berrylike
Literary usage of Berrylike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"... A POME • Fleshy or berrylike. Two to five papery carpels, each 2-seeded. ...
The berrylike seeds hanging by a thread from each carpel, which opens when ..."
2. Weeds of the North Central States edited by Lloyd M. Wax, Richard S. Fawcett, Duane Isely (1999)
"Leaves overlapping scales, or, on young plants, sometimes like short needles (but
not in clusters) ; fruit berrylike. EASTERN REDCEDAR (Juniperus ..."
3. Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"Fruit^a pome or berrylike. 1. Pyrus communis, L. (L., communis, common.) COMMON PEAR.
Bark smooth, branches apt to have somewhat thorny spurs. ..."
4. Botanical Commentaries by Jonathan Stokes (1830)
"... a calyx •which does not become berrylike. B. chenopodio'ides is described as
having a calyx which continues juice- less.— Gaertn. ii. 200. t. 126. L. 1. ..."
5. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1898)
"Root tubercles are small, warty or berrylike enlargements on the roots of certain
plants, and vary in size from small nodules the size of a ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Among the descendants of those plants whose fruits had become somewhat berrylike,
those having the more succulent pericarp would, other things being equal, ..."
7. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"Fruit a berrylike wrinkled drupe, ellipsoidal, j inch long, dull purplish blue.
The Swamp Privet is found on swamp land or along river banks, ..."
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