blueberry bush
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- noun
- /ˈbluːˌbɛri bʌʃ/
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- It was a modest slope, a graceful landscape of dark pines, abandoned apple orchards, and fields of blueberry bushes.
- wild blueberry bush
- grow a blueberry bush
Examples
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Maggot played with the girls on the slope below the blueberry bushes along the edge of the bogs where cranberries grew and the grasses turned all shadow-tipped in autumn.
Fiction book (2002) -
So far I've built my garden boxes, a new shed for garden tools and whatnot, planted a half dozen blueberry bushes, a beehive, and added a half dozen fruit trees to the four that were on my property.
Blog text (24) -
Next spring, I'll set out some blueberry bushes.
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There was a blueberry bush, and Marshall stood still as Britta moved slowly toward it.
Fiction book (1996) -
We swam to an island of bees and Poison Ivy, cat briar and low hanging blueberry bushes of coarse sand we could lie on to dry ourselves in the July sun.
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Her dad had given her the first blueberry bush when she was just seven.
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The yard includes a swimming pool and a dozen blueberry bushes.
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Next spring, I'll set out some blueberry bushes.
Synonyms
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A plant that makes small blue berries you can eat
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A small dark blue berry like a blueberry that grows on a low bush and can be eaten
A tall bush that produces the blueberries grown on farms
A tall bush that produces blueberries you can eat
A low bush in northeastern North America that makes small sweet dark blue berries
A small low shrub with sweet dark blue berries
A low bush in northeastern forests that makes small sweet dark blue berries
A low-growing shrub that has sweet dark blue berries in small groups
A low bush that loses its leaves and has dark blue sweet berries like small wild blueberries
A low bush in the eastern United States that has dark blue sweet berries
A low bush with pink flowers and sweet blue berries that grows in cold northern and mountain areas
A wild blueberry bush with sour berries that grows in western US mountains
A small bush that grows in mountains and has sour berries you can eat
A small upright plant like a blueberry that grows in western US mountains and makes sour berries
A bush that produces small sweet blueberries grown in the southeastern United States
A shrub that produces edible berries grown in the southeastern United States for canning
A tall bush that grows in wet ground and makes dark blue berries you can eat in eastern North America
A bush with shiny leaves that stay green all year and dark blue berries
A low shrub with shiny evergreen leaves and bluish-black berries that grows in the southeastern United States
A small evergreen shrub with thick leaves that grows in bogs and makes edible blue or black berries
A small evergreen bush like a blueberry that grows in cold mountain areas
A small dark blue berry that grows wild in European forests
A small European shrub that has edible blue-black berries
A low bush with small dark blue edible berries
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Morphology
The meaning 'a shrub that produces blueberries' is directly and compositionally derived from 'blueberry' (a berry-producing plant) + 'bush' (a small woody plant). This noun-noun compounding is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Blueberry bush comes from a very simple picture: a low bush covered in small blue blueberries, so it literally means 'a shrub that produces blueberries'.