blackberry
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- noun
- /ˈblækˌbɛri/
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- One day, when the blackberries were out, she walked home on the path near the river.
Examples
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By the third week of June, it appeared: a pint of blackberries at the Farmer's Market.
Fiction book (1992) -
Among the berries harvested for food were blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and lowbush and highbush cranberries.
Academic text (2009) -
I am off to pick blackberries, under orders to pick a lot.
Fiction book (1998) -
I had some blackberries and some blueberries.
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The blackberries were the only thing holding up the hillside.
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The other day, I was picking wild blackberries with my family along an old, muddy dirt road.
Fiction book (1992) -
The whole far side of the ravine was covered with a thicket of blackberries.
Fiction book (1995) -
On other days, she walked in the woods, picked blackberries and wild grapes, and gathered firewood.
Academic text (1990) -
We picked tons of blackberries and then we made blackberry everything: jam, scones, muffins, jelly...
Fiction book (2000) -
On a sunny afternoon, the children enjoyed picking blackberries in the lush green field.
Synonyms
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A bush with thorny stems that makes sweet dark berries you can eat
A bush that grows sweet black or dark purple berries you can eat
A blackberry bush that bears sweet black or dark purple berries people eat
A North American blackberry plant with small black edible berries
A wild bush that produces long black berries and grows in western North America
A wild blackberry bush with long black fruit that grows in western North America
A low spiny bush that grows in wet ground and has small black berries you can eat
A plant with long stems that grow along the ground and produce black berries
A stiff bush that makes blackberries and grows in sandy soil in the eastern United States
A type of blackberry bush that grows in the eastern United States
Compounds
A garden plant with orange flowers and seed pods that open to show seeds like blackberries
A plant with long stems that grow along the ground and produce black berries
A stiff bush that makes blackberries and grows in sandy soil in the eastern United States
A low spiny bush that grows in wet ground and has small black berries you can eat
A wild bush that produces long black berries and grows in western North America
How Prickly
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blackberry for the bush comes from the same parts black and berry, meaning 'black' and 'berry'. It is the plant that makes the dark berries, so calling the plant blackberry links it straight to the fruit.