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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

浆果

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jiāngguǒ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Berry/ˈbɛri/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #2500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"我从花园里摘了一些新鲜的浆果。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small, round fruit that is typically juicy, sweet, or sour, and often edible.

    "I picked some fresh strawberries and blueberries from the garden."
  2. 2

    A type of fruit that develops from a single ovary and contains one or more seeds.

    "Raspberries are considered aggregate berries because they form from multiple small drupelets."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'berie', of Germanic origin, and is related to the Dutch 'bes' and German 'Beere'. Historically, it referred to any small, juicy fruit, a definition that still holds in common usage alongside the narrower botanical classification.

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