bilberry
Americannoun
noun
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any of several ericaceous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium , having edible blue or blackish berries See also blueberry
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the fruit of any of these plants
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( as modifier )
bilberry pie
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bilberry
1570–80; obsolete bil (< Scandinavian; compare Danish bölle bilberry) + berry
Example Sentences
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When paired with steaming, chewy Icelandic bread and tart bilberry jam, it is the ideal combination.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021
Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2020
"Pickled, soused, and salted products stood in ranks . . . vats of bilberry, cranberry, cloudberry."
From Time Magazine Archive
I would not care a bilberry for posterity.
From Time Magazine Archive
As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
He hunted moose and deer and picked lingonberries, mushrooms, and bilberries.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 13, 2021
Scots pine shin up the very steepest slopes, bilberries blooming in their shadow.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020
Pick wild strawberries, raspberries or bilberries, according to season.
From Time Magazine Archive
I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
I saw a lizard run over the crag; I saw a bee busy among the sweet bilberries.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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