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blackberries

blackberries is the plural of blackberry.

blackberries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blackberry.

Meaning of blackberry

Noun

blackberry (plural blackberries)

  1. A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
  2. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
    • Here at the creek, a ways off from the trail, we have blackberries for now, not as fat and sweet as they get, but I like them tart, with that little bit of red still at their tops, or if they’re just a little hard and not so soft they come off when you pull at them and leave your fingers stained.2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 79
  3. (broadly, informal) Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
  4. (UK, dialectal) The blackcurrant.

See all 7 meanings of blackberry

Verb capitalized: BlackBerries

BlackBerries

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of BlackBerry

Phrases with blackberries

Questions about blackberries

What is blackberries the plural of?
Blackberries is the plural of blackberry.
What part of speech is blackberries?
Blackberries is a verb.

Words near blackberries in the dictionary

  1. blackbean
  2. Blackbeard
  3. blackbelt
  4. blackbelts
  5. blackberried
  6. blackberries
  7. blackberrita
  8. blackberritas
  9. blackberry
  10. blackberry lilies
  11. blackberry lily

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