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BLACKBERRY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: blackberried   

 I. (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

Synonyms:

blackberry; blackberry bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pick or gather blackberries

Example:

The children went blackberrying

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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)

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