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to blackberry

1 3.2
To pick ripe black berries from bushes
  • verb
  • /ˈblækˌbɛri/
translation icon : 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
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
84 1.6
to blackberry
1 3.2
to pluck
77 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.