| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
berg2 (bɜːɡ) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| a South African word for mountain | |
Berg (bûrg), Paul. Born 1926.
American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing recombinant methods of inserting genes from simple organisms into the genetic material of similar organisms.