blaeberry
- noun
- /ˈbleɪbəri/
- UK
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- On our walk through the highlands, we gathered handfuls of blaeberries from the shrubs.
Examples
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The tart flavor of blaeberries makes them perfect for homemade jams and desserts.
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The blaeberry is sweeter than a blueberry.
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Children used to stain their fingers picking blaeberry in the summer woods.
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I picked some blaeberries from the bush.
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On our walk through the highlands, we gathered handfuls of blaeberries from the shrubs.
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Children used to stain their fingers picking blaeberry in the summer woods.
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The tart flavor of blaeberries makes them perfect for homemade jams and desserts.
Synonyms
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A small dark blue berry like a blueberry that grows on a low bush and can be eaten
A small European shrub that has edible blue-black berries
A small shrub that has blue-black berries you can eat
A small dark blue berry that grows wild in European forests
A low bush with small dark blue edible berries
A low evergreen shrub with leathery leaves that grows in bogs and produces small blue-black berries
A tall bush from eastern North America that makes sweet blue-black berries used to grow blueberries
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Etymology
Blaeberry comes from the Scots word blae, meaning 'blue', plus berry, so the name simply means a 'blue' berry. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the familiar blueberry, which explains why a blaeberry is a small blue-black berry related to the blueberry.