Meaning

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

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

  2. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

    Brombeere, Brombeerstrauch

    ежеви́каježevíka, ежеви́каježevíka

    ожи́наožýna, ожи́наožýna

  3. (broadly, informal)Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.

  4. (UK, dialectal)The blackcurrant.

Examples

61 sentences
  1. I love blackberries.

    Я люблю ожину. — User55521

    ruЯ люблю ежевику. — sharptoothed

    deIch mag Brombeeren. — Hans07

  2. Tom picked some blackberries to eat.

  3. We don't have any more blackberries.

  4. I wonder where Tom found these blackberries.

  5. Tom is eating the blackberries he picked this afternoon.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fruit:
Русский
By meaning 1
fruit:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
fruit:
shrub:

Origin

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe,

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan), equivalent to black + berry.

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Forms

plural: blackberries
Singularblackberry
Pluralblackberries

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle:blackberry bush

Word family

8 related words

See also

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