berried

[ ber-eed ]

adjective

1. covered with or yielding berries.
2. of or like a berry; baccate.
3. (of lobsters, crayfish, etc.) having eggs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of berried¹

First recorded in 1785–95; berry + -ed ³

Example Sentences

The floral arrangements used “English foliage — holly, berried ivy and red skimmia,” and the tree was to be recycled to be viewed by holiday visitors to Windsor.

From Washington Post

And that’s why he fed me outside, So the carpet he'd not need to guard; My brother still swears that the day that Dad died, I berried him in the backyard.

From Washington Post

In fall, masses of winter pansies, ornamental kale and berried shrubs replace tender plantings in the massive window box and containers, while the trim boxwood hedges and clipped hollies carry the show throughout winter.

From Seattle Times

In this case prawns … were kept in tanks of seawater where berried females — those carrying eggs — hatched the young larvae.

From Nature

Gather dried berries and pine cones or mimosa, helichrysum or berried eucalyptus.

From New York Times