BLUEBERRY

blueberry

(noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants

blueberry, blueberry bush

(noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

blueberry (countable and uncountable, plural blueberries)

(countable) An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.

(countable) The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.

(countable and uncountable) A dark blue colour.

Adjective

blueberry (comparative more blueberry, superlative most blueberry)

Of a dark blue colour.

Verb

blueberry (third-person singular simple present blueberries, present participle blueberrying, simple past and past participle blueberried)

To gather or forage for blueberries.

Anagrams

• berry blue

Source: Wiktionary

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Blue"berry, n. Etym: [Cf. Blaeberry.] (Bot.)

Definition: The berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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