blackberry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a soft, dark purple-black edible fruit made up of many small juicy segments

   We picked ripe blackberries from the hedge and baked them into a pie.

2. 2
   noun

   the thorny shrub or trailing plant on which blackberries grow

   A blackberry had spread across the neglected corner of the garden.

3. 3
   verb

   to gather wild blackberries

   The family went blackberrying along the country lanes in late summer.

From Middle English blakberie or blakeberie, from Old English blæcberġe, literally 'black berry.' The compound refers to the mature fruit's very dark color.

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