blaeberry
Americannoun
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blaeberries
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of blaeberry
1375–1425; late Middle English (north) blaberie. See blae, berry
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Large areas of hillside have also been observed turning green again as grasses, bracken and blaeberry begin to make a comeback.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
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 Neil Munro
He was the one to find plovers' eggs, and to spot a blaeberry patch.
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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 W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton
The blaeberry banks now are lonesome and dreary, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
There you may find shade in summer, and great blaeberries and ripening rowans in the wane of August.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
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
A clutch of eggs, honey, delicious mast, God has sent it: Sweet apples, red whortleberries, And blaeberries.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
"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
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
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