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blackberry

UK/ˈblækbəɹi//ˈblækbɛɹi/

blackberry noun: a fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

blackberry: a fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids
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Noun (1)

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.

Verb (1)

blackberry (third-person singular simple present blackberries, present participle blackberrying, simple past and past participle blackberried)

  1. To gather or forage for blackberries.
    • She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
    • My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 111

Noun (2) capitalized: BlackBerry

BlackBerry (plural BlackBerrys or BlackBerries)

  1. A wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, marketed by BlackBerry Limited.
    • Knowing that DA, Inc. was using BlackBerrys, the CEO of the competition hired an underground hacker to come up with a way to thwart the competition.2007, Daniel Hoffman, Blackjacking: Security Threats to BlackBerry® Devices, PDAs, and Cell Phones in the Enterprise, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 49
    • A few days ago, I took a walk with my wife and did not take my BlackBerry! That's progress. Of course, I reached into my empty pockets six or seven times, so clearly I have a long way to go.2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120

Verb (2) capitalized: BlackBerry

BlackBerry (third-person singular simple present BlackBerries, present participle BlackBerrying, simple past and past participle BlackBerried)

  1. To send a text message or e-mail with a BlackBerry device.
    • "I BlackBerried a sort of risque joke message to this friend of mine — it was totally a joke — but, um, I accidentally sent it to two hundred strangers. […]2007, Kristin Gore, Sammy's Hill, Miramax Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 219
    • We've interviewed female entrepreneurs who say they were BlackBerrying up into the final stages of labor; […]2009, Colleen DeBaise, The Wall Street Journal: Complete Small Business Guidebook, Three Rivers Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 205

blackberry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

blackberry in Hindi

fruit
शहतूत śahtūt

blackberry in Tamil

மேற்கத்திய நாவல் பழம், கொத்தாகவேக் காணப்பபடுகிறது

blackberry in Marathi

ब्लॅकबेरी, ब्लॅकबॅरी, ब्लॅकबेरींग

blackberry in Urdu

بلیک بیری
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blackberry in Bengali
কালজামজাতীয় ফল kalojamjatiẏo phol
blackberry in Telugu
బ్లాక్బెర్రీ, బ్లాక్ బెర్రీ, బ్ల్యాక్బెర్రీ
blackberry in Malayalam
ബ്ളാക്ക്ബെറി
blackberry in Kannada
ಬ್ಲ್ಯಾಕ್ಬೆರಿ, ಬ್ಲ್ಯಾಕ್ಬೆರ್ರಿ, ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ಬೆರ್ರಿ
blackberry in Punjabi
ਬਲੈਕਬੇਰੀ
blackberry in Gujarati
બ્લેકબેરી, બ્લેકબૅરી, બ્લેકબેરીને
blackberry in Odia
ବ୍ଲାକ୍ବେରି, ବ୍ଲାକବେରୀ, ବ୍ଲାକବେରି
blackberry in Nepali
ब्ल्याकबेरी, ब्लेकबेरी, ब्लैकबेरी
blackberry in Tagalog
sapinit, sarsamora
blackberry in Arabic
عُلَّيْق ʕullayq, بَاطُس bāṭus, تُوت العُلَّيْق tūt al-ʕullayq
blackberry in Malay
sj buah kecil
blackberry in Persian
تمشک tamešk
blackberry in Thai
แบล็กเบอร์รี blaekboeri
blackberry in Vietnamese
trái ngấy

Examples of blackberry in a sentence

  • Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.
  • There was a blackberry patch down by the creek, and his grandparents called the pasture down there the cow patch.
  • We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

All 34 example sentences with blackberry

Synonyms of blackberry

Forms of blackberry

Noun
pluralblackberries
pluralBlackBerrys
pluralBlackBerries
Verb
third-person singular presentblackberries
present participleblackberrying
past participleblackberried
pastblackberried
third-person singular presentBlackBerries
present participleBlackBerrying
past participleBlackBerried
pastBlackBerried

Plural of blackberry: blackberries

Origin of blackberry

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan), equivalent to black + berry.

Brand name, from the resemblance of the keyboard's buttons to the skin of a fruit.

Words formed from blackberry

Phrases with blackberry

Questions about blackberry

What does blackberry mean?
Blackberry means a fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
What is blackberry in Hindi?
Blackberry in Hindi is शहतूत (śahtūt). See Blackberry meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is blackberry?
Blackberry can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce blackberry?
Blackberry is pronounced /ˈblækbəɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of blackberry?
The plural of blackberry is blackberries.

Words near blackberry in the dictionary

  1. blackbelts
  2. blackberried
  3. blackberries
  4. blackberrita
  5. blackberritas
  6. blackberry
  7. blackberry lilies
  8. blackberry lily
  9. blackberry winter
  10. blackberry winters
  11. blackberryade

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blackberry (page history and authors); BlackBerry (page history and authors); blackberry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blackberry (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackberry (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackberry (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackberry (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blackberry (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackberry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackberry (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackberry (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackberry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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