blackberry

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UK /ˈblækbəɹi/ US /ˈblækbɛɹi/

noun 5verb 2

Collocations

ADJ.

delicious, hybrid, left, overgrown, tart, warm, wild, wonderful

We picked juicy blackberries from the overgrown bushes behind the old barn.

VERB + BLACKBERRY

cross, made, make, makes, served, take, taste, typed

My grandmother makes blackberry jam every summer from the bushes in her garden.

BLACKBERRY + NOUN

asian, bushes, glaze, picker, pie, raspberry, syrup

My grandmother made a delicious blackberry pie using berries from our garden.

PREP.

between, in, in, on, on, with

I found a patch of blackberry bushes growing between the fence and the old barn.

Definitions

noun

A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

Here at the creek, a ways off from the trail, we have blackberries for now, not as fat and sweet as they get, but I like them tart, with that little bit of red still at their tops, or if they’re just a little hard and not so soft they come off when you pull at them and leave your fingers stained.

Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.

The blackcurrant.

verb

To gather or forage for blackberries.

She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun

My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

noun

A wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, marketed by BlackBerry Limited.

Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition.

A few days ago, I took a walk with my wife and did not take my BlackBerry! That's progress. Of course, I reached into my empty pockets six or seven times, so clearly I have a long way to go.

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She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun

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My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

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Thereafter we blackberried unceasingly and returned with a large basketful, together with some maggoty windfall apples found neglected in the wet grass on the edge of an orchard and Mrs Clare duly ste

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Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition.

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A few days ago, I took a walk with my wife and did not take my BlackBerry! That's progress. Of course, I reached into my empty pockets six or seven times, so clearly I have a long way to go.

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In some senses, blackberry is marked as informal, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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