[f. BERRY sb. + -ED2.]
1. Having or bearing berries.
1794. Gisborne, Walks Forest (1796), 112. While the keen thrush the berried twig invades.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. VI. x. 99. The berried shrubs.
1871. M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., II. ii. 42. Red-berried holly.
2. Formed as or consisting of a berry; baccate.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XV. 169. Bushes hung with berried fruits.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 130. Fruit either berried or membranous.
1851. Balfour, Bot., § 550. Baccate or berried is applied to all pulpy fruits.
3. Bearing eggs; ‘in berry.’ Cf. BERRY sb.1 3.
1868. Macm. Mag., Nov., 18. Lobster-sauce … improved by ‘berried hens,’ that is by female lobsters full of eggs.
