- Muffin fruit - Small soft fruit - Small, sweet, blue black berry - The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous
genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous
minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V.
Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
- The small applelike berry of American trees of genus
Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. - The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called
shad bush, and had tree.
- The small olive-shaped berry of the European and
Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment. - The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper
(Capparis sodado).
- Tropical vine - The small, spicy berry of a species of pepper (Piper Cubeba;
in med., Cubeba officinalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now
cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is
much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.