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1 3.2
To pick ripe black berries from bushes
  • verb
  • /ˈblækˌbɛri/
: recoger moras
  • Children love to blackberry in the countryside, gathering sweet fruit for pies.

Examples

  • Last weekend, they spent hours blackberrying along the hedgerows, enjoying the warm sun.

  • So I'm just having some frozen blackberries in here, so probably just like a pretty large handful.

  • She and Hamish have gone blackberrying.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • During the summer, we often go blackberry picking in the nearby woods.

Synonyms

to berry
vsto blackberry
1 4.7

To pick small fruits from plants or bushes

refers specifically to picking one particular kind of fruit from bushes

Compounds

A bush with thorny stems that makes sweet dark berries you can eat

A sweet alcoholic drink that uses blackberries, strong alcohol, and sugar

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 bush that grows sweet black or dark purple berries you can eat

A wild bush that produces long black berries and grows in western North America

How Much

to harvest
117 1.6
to blackberry
1 3.2
to pluck
125 3.5

Surface Forms

blackberry infinitive
blackberried past participle
blackberrying present participle
blackberries third person singular

Etymology

Blackberry as a verb comes from the noun and simply means 'to pick' or gather the dark berries from the bush, so to blackberry is to go and collect those fruits.