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🫐 A dark berry 🌿 A berry plant
youngberry

youngberry

7.9
A thorny bush that grows dark red edible berries and comes from crossing a blackberry with a dewberry
  • noun
  • /ˈjʌŋˌbɛri/
  • US
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  • Each summer, we pick fresh youngberries to make homemade jam.

Examples

  • The youngberry plant thrives in sunny areas.

  • A youngberry shrub can produce fruit for many years if properly cared for.

  • The farmer planted several youngberry bushes along the fence for their delicious fruit.

  • I love picking youngberries in the summer.

  • The youngberry bushes in our garden produced a delicious harvest of dark red fruit this summer.

  • She picked a handful of youngberries to make a fresh pie for the family gathering.

  • The local farmer sells homemade jam made from ripe youngberries at the weekly market.

Surface Forms

youngberry singular
youngberries plural

Morphology

youngberry = young + berry (semi-transparent) = young + berry

Formally a compound of 'young' + 'berry' and thus identifies a type of berry, but the name derives from a breeder (Young) rather than indicating the plant is 'young', so the adjective does not transparently contribute a descriptive meaning.

Etymology

Youngberry also names the thorny shrub that produces those berries. Think of it as the young + berry plant, similar to a blackberry bush, so youngberry means the cultivated shrub that gives the dark red edible fruit.