Blackberry Definition

blăkbĕrē
blackberries
noun
blackberries
Any of various shrubs of the genus Rubus in the rose family, having usually prickly stems, compound leaves, and an aggregate fruit of small drupelets.
American Heritage
The fleshy, purple or black, edible aggregate fruit of various brambles (genus Rubus) of the rose family.
Webster's New World
The fruit of these plants, usually black, purple, or deep red.
American Heritage
A bush or vine bearing this fruit.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • blackberry bush
verb

To gather or forage for blackberries.

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To send a text message or e-mail with a BlackBerry device.

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pronoun

(telephony, computer hardware, trademark) A smartphone brand. The brand name of a wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, by BlackBerry Limited or by extension similar apparatus made by competitors.

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Other Word Forms of Blackberry

Noun

Singular:
blackberry
Plural:
blackberries

Blackberry Sentence Examples

  • Fresh blackberry pie sounded good.

  • Deciding to use the sun to orient herself, she detoured around several dense patches of blackberry bushes.

  • The blackberry, raspberry, blueberry and strawberry grow wild in profusion throughout the state.

  • Among indigenous fruitbearing trees, shrubs, vines and plants are the plum, cherry, grape, blackberry, raspberry, cranberry and strawberry.

  • To her right was a blackberry thicket laden with berries – mostly red, but some dark.

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