blueberry
- noun
- /ˈbluːˌbɛri/
- From now on, I want you to put an equal amount of blueberries in each muffin.
- harvest blueberries
- blueberry crop
- blueberries and strawberries
So I got my almond milk, some strawberries, some blueberries and bananas.
- So I got my almond milk, some strawberries, some blueberries and bananas.
- Now I like when they're firm because a mushy blueberry sucks.
- They're very similar to blueberries but better.
- We're gonna make a granola bowl with blueberries, strawberries, some eggs.
- Easy as pie, easy as blueberry pie, easy as pie.
- So we're going to go ahead and make a lemon blueberry bread.
- And our favorite was mixing blueberries and a little bit of pumpkin.
- An entire bottle of Stoli Blueberry, like what a food combo.
- Dum Dums pops in blueberry and blue Raspberry.
- This one smells kind of like blueberry and plastic.
Examples
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My mother wrote a great recipe for blueberry cobbler.
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"We'll come here and buy raspberries and blueberries and eat them all on our way home."
Fiction book (1996) -
Did somebody just say, "Blueberry pie"?
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Uh, and the blueberry pie with ice cream for dessert.
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I decided to get myself some blueberries and some water.
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Can I get a blueberry scone, please?
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In the mornings, as he lectured, she ground fresh coffee and cooked blueberry pancakes.
Fiction book (1994) -
Oh, I love blueberries.
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Today, about 86,000 tons of blueberries are produced on 36,000 acres by U.S. growers each year.
Academic text (1994) -
For breakfast, I made pancakes topped with fresh blueberries and maple syrup.
Compounds
- Specialized
A bush that produces small sweet blueberries grown in the southeastern United States
- Specialized
A shrub that makes small sweet blueberries grown in the southeastern United States
A tall bush that grows in wet ground and makes dark blue berries you can eat in eastern North America
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blueberry is simply blue + berry, with blue meaning 'the color blue' and berry meaning 'small fruit'. So a blueberry is literally a small fruit that is blue, which is why the word names the sweet dark-blue berry you eat.