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BLUEBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("blueberry" is a kind of...):
berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)
Holonyms ("blueberry" is a part of...):
dwarf bilberry; dwarf blueberry; Vaccinium caespitosum (low-growing tufted deciduous shrub of northern and alpine North America having pink to coral-red flowers followed by sweet blue berries)
high-bush blueberry; swamp blueberry; tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum (high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
Synonyms:
blueberry; blueberry bush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blueberry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blueberry"):
deerberry; squaw huckleberry; Vaccinium stamineum (small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer)
grouse-berry; grouse whortleberry; grouseberry; Vaccinium scoparium (shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries)
dryland berry; dryland blueberry; Vaccinium pallidum (low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries)
bog bilberry; bog whortleberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum (an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves)
bilberry; blaeberry; Viccinium myrtillus; whinberry; whortleberry (erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries)
bilberry; mountain blue berry; thin-leaved bilberry; Viccinium membranaceum (erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries)
evergreen huckleberry; Vaccinium ovatum (stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements)
evergreen blueberry; Vaccinium myrsinites (shrub of the eastern United States having shining evergreen leaves and bluish-black fruit)
high-bush blueberry; swamp blueberry; tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum (high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries)
dwarf bilberry; dwarf blueberry; Vaccinium caespitosum (low-growing tufted deciduous shrub of northern and alpine North America having pink to coral-red flowers followed by sweet blue berries)
rabbit-eye blueberry; rabbiteye; rabbiteye blueberry; Vaccinium ashei (shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry)
low-bush blueberry; low blueberry; Vaccinium angustifolium; Vaccinium pennsylvanicum (low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries)
farkleberry; sparkleberry; Vaccinium arboreum (shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries)
huckleberry (any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries)
Holonyms ("blueberry" is a member of...):
genus Vaccinium; Vaccinium (evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries)
Context examples:
Dr Joanna Bowtell, head of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter, said: In this study we have shown that with just 12 weeks of consuming 30ml of concentrated blueberry juice every day, brain blood flow, brain activation and some aspects of working memory were improved in this group of healthy older adults.
(Blueberry Concentrate Improves Brain Function in Older People, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
