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blackberry

/ˈblækbɛɹi/noun, verb3 syllables

Blackberry means: bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle.

Synonyms for blackberry3

noun, as in bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle

blackberry bush

also used for blackberry

bramble, brambleberry

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What does blackberry mean?3

noun

1

bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle

2

large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus

verb

1

pick or gather blackberries“The children went blackberrying”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Blackberry in a sentence

  • That blackberry was tart, but the others were sweet.mccarras
  • The tayberry is a cultivated cross between a blackberry and a raspberry.Vanilla
  • My future mother-in-law makes wonderful blackberry pie.Vanilla
  • The property was almost completely overgrown with wild blackberry bushes.CarpeLanam
  • Try to describe the taste of a blackberry.Nylez
  • The was some blackberry juice on the kitchen counter.Amastan
  • Ziri didn't put any sugar in the blackberry juice.Amastan
  • Ziri added some water to the blackberry juice.Amastan

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of blackberry

as a noun

plural
blackberries

as a verb

third-person singular
blackberries
present participle
blackberrying
past participle
blackberried
past tense
blackberried