blaeberry
noun
blaeberries
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pluralof blaeberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A clutch of eggs, honey, delicious mast, God has sent it: Sweet apples, red whortleberries, And blaeberries.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
The island on which we had encamped was a small rocky one, covered with short heathery-looking shrubs, among which we found thousands of blaeberries.
From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"Alert, I seek exactitude of rule, I step and square my shoulders with the squad, But there are blaeberries on old Barrule, And Langness has its heather still—thank God!"
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
On its upper table-like surface I found a few patches of moss and lichen, and a slim reddening tuft of the Vaccinium myrtillus, still bearing, late as was the season, its half-dozen blaeberries.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
I left my bairnie lying here, Lying here, lying here; I left my bairnie lying here, To go and gather blaeberries.
From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by M. E. S. Wright
