BLACKBERRY (blackberried)
Dictionary entry overview: What does blackberry mean?
• BLACKBERRY (noun)
The noun BLACKBERRY has 2 senses:
1. large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
2. bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
Familiarity information: BLACKBERRY used as a noun is rare.
• BLACKBERRY (verb)
The verb BLACKBERRY has 1 sense:
1. pick or gather blackberries
Familiarity information: BLACKBERRY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLACKBERRY (noun)
Meaning:
Large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("blackberry" is a kind of...):
berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)
drupelet (a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe)
Holonyms ("blackberry" is a part of...):
Rubus fruticosus; true blackberry (the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries)
Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry (American blackberry with oblong black fruit)
Meaning:
Bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
blackberry bush; blackberry
Hypernyms ("blackberry" is a kind of...):
bramble bush (any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackberry"):
Rubus fruticosus; true blackberry (the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries)
Rubus cuneifolius; sand blackberry (stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida))
dewberry; dewberry bush; running blackberry (any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America)
Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry (American blackberry with oblong black fruit)
• BLACKBERRY (verb)
Meaning:
Pick or gather blackberries
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
The children went blackberrying
Hypernyms (to "blackberry" is one way to...):
berry (pick or gather berries)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
In the summer they like to go out and blackberry
