blueberry
Americannoun
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blueberries
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the edible, usually bluish berry of various shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium, of the heath family.
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any of these shrubs.
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Also called: huckleberry. any of several North American ericaceous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium , such as V. pennsylvanicum , that have blue-black edible berries with tiny seeds See also bilberry
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the fruit of any of these plants
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( as modifier )
blueberry pie
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Zhang has been working on a system to automatically count the number of blueberries, external captured in smartphone images of blueberry bushes.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
State banks fed the rush, offering a special category of loans for blueberry growers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Driscoll’s has filed more than 20 lawsuits against companies in China, some of which it has said took its proprietary blueberry plants, propagated them and sold them to rival growers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
For just about everyone in the blueberry business, though, it has been a knife fight, plagued by intellectual-property theft and tanking profits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Voices and music float from New Clairmont, where the aunts and Granddad are eating blueberry pie and drinking port.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Zhang has been working on a system to automatically count the number of blueberries, external captured in smartphone images of blueberry bushes.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
His firm offers growers crop predictions for strawberries and also raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and tomatoes.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Lamar had brought a bag of fresh blueberries to her mother’s appointment with Tan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
First Lamar fed Jessie the blueberries, and then Tan took over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Back when I was ’bout five or six Ma told me to fetch a bucket and go into the woods behind our home and pick her some blueberries.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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