blackberry

Pluralblackberries

Formsblackberries, blackberrying, blackberried

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A soft, dark purple-black fruit made up of many tiny juicy beads.

   Like a tiny bunch of juicy beads stuck together into one fruit.

   I picked a ripe blackberry and ate it right away.

   We scattered fresh blackberries over the top of the cake.

   Similarbramble, brambleberry

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A thorny bush that grows in hedges and along paths and produces small dark berries.

   A blackberry grows best in a spot with plenty of sun.

   Thorny blackberry bushes covered the whole hillside.

   Similarbramble, brambleberry

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3. 3
   nouncolloquialcountable

   Any blackish berry from a bramble plant, or the bush it grows on, used loosely without naming the exact kind.

   We called every dark berry on the trail a blackberry.

   Those blackberries might really be dewberries, but nobody on the walk minded.

4. 4
   verbintransitive

   To go out and collect ripe blackberries from bushes in the wild.

   Every September we blackberry along the country lanes.

   She went blackberrying with a basket over her arm.

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5. 5
   noundialectalUKcountable

   In some parts of Britain, the small dark berry known elsewhere as the blackcurrant.

   Gran's blackberry bush grew next to the redcurrants, and its fruit hung in little strings just like theirs.

   She stewed the blackberries with sugar to make a sharp, dark cordial.

   Similarblackcurrant

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