Dog|ber|ry

Dog|ber|ry
dog|ber|ry «DG BEHR ee, DOG-; -buhr-», noun, plural -ries.
1. the berry or fruit of the European dogwood.
2. the plant.
3. any one of various other shrubs or trees, or their fruit, such as the chokeberry, the mountain ash, or one species of wild gooseberry of the United States, and the guelder-rose, the bearberry, and the dog rose of Europe.
Dog|ber|ry «DG BEHR ee, DOG-; -buhr-», noun, plural -ries.
1. a foolish, talkative constable in Shakespeare's “Much Ado About Nothing.”
2. an ignorant, pompous official.

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