blaeberry

American  

[bley-ber-ee, -buh-ree] / ˈbleɪˌbɛr i, -bə ri /

noun

Scot. and North England.

blaeberries plural

1. whortleberry.

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blaeberry British  

/ ˈbleɪbərɪ /

noun

1. another name for bilberry bilberry

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• blaeberries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of blaeberry

1375–1425; late Middle English (north) blaberie. See blae, berry

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

blaeberry blaeberries

But as their shadows lengthened across the blaeberry and heather, the silences grew longer, and Betty, striving to concentrate her interest on her book, found the page grow suddenly blurred and incomprehensible….

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus

Bluer your eye than the blaeberry kissed On the high mountain's shoulder by sun and by mist; Gentler your eyelids' soft motion, than where The upland grass waves to the breezes of air.

From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland

Hint that it is merely the English bilberry or blaeberry, or whortleberry and—but no one dares hint that.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

I saw first the pale blue sky through a net of heather, then a big shoulder of hill, and then my own boots placed neatly in a blaeberry bush.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

The deer and the heath-cock, the curd from the pen, The blaeberry fresh from the dew!

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

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 Wright, M. E. S.

There you may find shade in summer, and great blaeberries and ripening rowans in the wane of August.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John

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 Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)

"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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)