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wineberry

wineberry noun: the grape (fruit of plants of the genus Vitis).

Noun

wineberry (plural wineberries)

  1. (obsolete, poetic, possibly) The grape (fruit of plants of the genus Vitis).
  2. The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.
    1. Its edible fruit, resembling a raspberry.
  3. The tree Aristotelia serrata, endemic to New Zealand, with broad rose-coloured leaves.
    1. Its edible fruit, a small black berry.
  4. (UK, obsolete) The red currant.

Forms of wineberry

pluralwineberries

Origin of wineberry

From Middle English wynberie, wynberie (“a grape or some other kind of berry”), from Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīnabaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *wīnabasją (“wineberry; grape”), equivalent to wine + berry. Doublet of whimberry (“bilberry”). Cognate with Dutch wijnbeer, West Frisian wynbei (“grape”), wiemer (“currant”), German Weinbeere (“grape”), Swedish vinbär (“currant”), Icelandic vínber (“grape”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

Questions about wineberry

What does wineberry mean?
Wineberry means the grape (fruit of plants of the genus Vitis).
What part of speech is wineberry?
Wineberry is a noun.
What is the plural of wineberry?
The plural of wineberry is wineberries.

Words near wineberry in the dictionary

  1. winebar
  2. Winebarger
  3. Winebargers
  4. winebars
  5. wineberries
  6. wineberry
  7. winebibber
  8. winebibbers
  9. winebibbery
  10. winebibbing
  11. wineblue

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