Blackberry

Quick meaning: Blackberry is a noun meaning A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
2. (loosely, informal) Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
3. (UK, dialectal) The blackcurrant.
4. To gather or forage for blackberries.

Example Sentences

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.

My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

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 stewed these for us.

Word Forms

• blackberries
• blackberrying
• blackberried

Synonyms for blackberry

Depending on context, synonyms include bramble, brambleberry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bramble, thornless, briers, rubus, raspberry, brambleberry.

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