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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Honeyberry \Hon"ey*ber'ry\, noun; pl. {-berries}. The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: (a) An Old World hackberry ({Celtis australis}). (b) In the West Indies, the genip ({Melicocca bijuga}). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Berry \Ber"ry\, noun; pl. {Berries}. [OE. berie, AS. berie, berige; akin to D. bes, G. beere, OS. and OHG. beri, Icel. ber, Sw. b["a]r, Goth. basi, and perh. Skr. bhas to eat.]
1. Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
2. (Bot.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
3. The coffee bean.
4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish. --Travis.
{In berry}, containing ova or spawn.
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