vineberry
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From vine + berry. Compare English wineberry.
Noun[edit]
vineberry (plural vineberries)
- a berry that grows on a vine, especially a cranberry or grape
- 2010, Heather Ranier, Tales of the Goddessi:
- She found her hands crushed under the coiled cords and she poked her fingers between two, watching them grow red and then purple as overripe vineberries.
- 2016, Robert Bevan-Jones, The Ancient Yew:
- […] and in the second place, that the arches at least, of that venerable historic edifice were festooned with clusters of the ripe vine-berry, carved from ancient yew, and apparently coloured to imitate the natural grapes, probably some part of a more ancient roof of the church itself.