Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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

Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

Word Forms

• blackberries
• blackberrying
• blackberried

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