blueberry
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blue
Middle English berye
English berry
English blueberry
From blue + berry.
Inflected forms:
form: blueberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blueberrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blueberriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blueberries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blueberrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blueberried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blueberried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Meronym: anthocyanin
Applesaucey Tricks Galore / Looks elaborate but isn’t: Take bakers sponge cake shells. In each one put a big spoonful of canned apple sauce, then a scoop of vanilla ice cream and top all with blueberry sauce, or with the fresh berries.
“And the Majestic Milky Way is pretty popular as well,” said Chad, whose personal favorite is the new Berry Potter, with vanilla ice cream, swirling blueberries and graham crackery Muggle crunch (Muggles are non-magic folk in the Harry Potter empire).
gloss: The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A dark blue colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of small spherical hematite-rich mineral concretion found on Mars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: On sol 46 (March 11, 2004 on Earth), Opportunity gathered data on a cluster of blueberries and confirmed the team's suspicions that this area of Mars once contained liquid water.
gloss: Of a dark blue colour.
pos: adj
examples: > > > > > > The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or
> > > > > > Lime.
[…]
> > > Periwinkle, now renamed blueberry. Second choice, orange peel.
>
> > It looks to my eye that "blueberry" is, uh, bluer than "periwinkle."
[…]
On-site, Blueberry looked blueberrier than Periwinkle, but it does follow the Fruit Names theme more closely.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of blueberries.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Breyers finds the sweetest, sunniest blueberries. Gently presses their just-picked flavor into a smooth puree. Then mixes lavishly with Breyers famous Vanilla Ice Cream. The result—the tastiest blueberriest flavor ever!
The blueberry muffin with the blueberriest flavor. / More blueberry flavor than any other mix. […] If you like more blueberry flavor in your muffins, this is the one.
IT’S THE BLUEBERRIEST TASTING MUFFIN MIX AROUND! […] New Improved Betty Crocker® Wild Blueberry Muffin Mix makes the blueberriest tasting muffins because we added more blueberry flavor. […] So they taste blueberrier than any other brand.
When I was a kid, my mom bought a brand of super-cheap imitation blueberry muffin mix that had a tagline on the box: “Blueberrier than real blueberries!”
gloss: Containing bluberries.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, blueberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.
The idea of a bagel had whetted my appetite so I made my way to Amy’s place near the park. / “Tommy! Good to see you, honey! Fresh blueberry, today.” / “You always know what I want. That’s great! Thanks.” / “Where’s Gussy?” she asked as she picked though the assortment. “I’ll find you the largest, blueberriest, one of the lot.” / “Blueberriest?” came Gus’s amused voice from behind me.” / “I understood,” I said. / It seemed that both Amy’s dictionary and mine were significantly different from his.
Fat-Free Blueberry Muffins / The “blueberriest” of muffins and low fat, too!
You name the occasion and I’m making a blueberry pie for him to celebrate. Over the years, I’ve come up with several tricks to make this the blueberriest, fruitiest, most delicious pie ever.
gloss: To gather or forage for blueberries.
pos: verb
examples: We blueberried on an open flat beside the river. The ground was covered with great frosted blue globules, sweet and warm in the sunshine.
The "white longlegged, long-necked bird" seen by your Ayer reader while she was blueberrying on the shore of a pond was either the Little Blue Heron in white phase or immature, […]
They had not passed again in the surrey going to the Forks, nine miles away, and none of the girls had been blueberrying among the bushes at the edge of the woods.
Sarah and I have been blueberrying together off and on since the summer of '64. This morning, armed with our pots and pans, we went out and picked two quarts of wild berries and then came home and made a cake.
Pointy fraise de bois went through it all with undiminished generosity (so small a plant for all that giving!) and the picking was fine, for the birds were off blueberrying and taking the late raspberries just as they ripened.
On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness.
"Come, Aunt Flo. I'll show you where we go blueberrying. Last year we got almost a bushel of berries, and Papa says they should be ripe now."
We decided to go blueberrying one day up in our hills. We grabbed our blueberry cans, hitched them to our belts, and headed for the blueberries.
Derived words: blueb
blueberrita
blueberryade
blueberry ash
blueberrylike
blueberry muffin baby
blueberrytini
cultivated blueberry
European blueberry
highbush blueberry
lowbush blueberry
Martian blueberry
saskatoon blueberry
sourtop blueberry
southeastern blueberry bee
wild blueberry
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