BLACKBERRY (blackberried)

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Irregular inflected form: blackberried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackberry mean? 

• BLACKBERRY (noun)
  The noun BLACKBERRY has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: BLACKBERRY used as a noun is rare.

• BLACKBERRY (verb)
  The verb BLACKBERRY has 1 sense:

1. pick or gather blackberries

  Familiarity information: BLACKBERRY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACKBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("blackberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

drupelet (a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe)

Holonyms ("blackberry" is a part of...):

Rubus fruticosus; true blackberry (the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries)

Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry (American blackberry with oblong black fruit)

Derivation:

blackberry (pick or gather blackberries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blackberry; blackberry bush

Hypernyms ("blackberry" is a kind of...):

bramble bush (any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackberry"):

Rubus fruticosus; true blackberry (the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries)

Rubus cuneifolius; sand blackberry (stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida))

dewberry; dewberry bush; running blackberry (any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America)

Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry (American blackberry with oblong black fruit)

• BLACKBERRY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pick or gather blackberries

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The children went blackberrying

Hypernyms (to "blackberry" is one way to...):

berry (pick or gather berries)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and blackberry

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles blackberry.

(Blackberry Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

While blackberry powder prevented the frozen dessert from wheying off the foam structure still collapsed so it lost its original shape.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

Footsore and famished, he had killed a rabbit under their very noses and under their very windows, and then crawled away and slept by the spring at the foot of the blackberry bushes.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles boysenberry (Rubus ursinus x idaeus), a hybrid of a raspberry, a blackberry, and/or a loganberry.

(Boysenberry Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

I was a mile from Thornfield, in a lane noted for wild roses in summer, for nuts and blackberries in autumn, and even now possessing a few coral treasures in hips and haws, but whose best winter delight lay in its utter solitude and leafless repose.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In Bilbao-Sainz's testing, adding 3.5 percent of either strawberry, raspberry or blackberry freeze‐dried powder reduced the water available for ice crystal formation during stirring and freezing, preventing crystal growth and slowing melting.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

Mine is no squalor of song that cannot transmute itself, with proper exchange value, into a flower-crowned cottage, a sweet mountain- meadow, a grove of redwoods, an orchard of thirty-seven trees, one long row of blackberries and two short rows of strawberries, to say nothing of a quarter of a mile of gurgling brook.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)