What does "blackberry" mean?
A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
Blackberry
/ˈblækbɛɹi/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
- Grammar: blackberry is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: berry, blackberry bush, blackberry fruit, blackberry shrub.
- Usage evidence: Why don't we make a blackberry cake?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
- 2 A wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, marketed by BlackBerry Limited.
"Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition."
- 3 large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus wordnet
- 4 The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
"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."
- 5 bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle wordnet
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- 6 Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it. broadly, informal
- 7 The blackcurrant. UK, dialectal
Verb
- 1 To gather or forage for blackberries.
"She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun"
- 2 To send a text message or e-mail with a BlackBerry device.
""I BlackBerried a sort of risque joke message to this friend of mine — it was totally a joke — but, um, I accidentally sent it to two hundred strangers. […]"
- 3 pick or gather blackberries wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"Why don't we make a blackberry cake?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "blackberry"?
Common synonyms include: berry, blackberry bush, blackberry fruit, blackberry shrub, bramble, bramble berry.
How do you use "blackberry" in a sentence?
Why don't we make a blackberry cake?
How do you pronounce "blackberry"?
Pronounced /ˈblækbɛɹi/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.
Etymology 2
Brand name, from the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to the skin of a fruit.