blaeberry

American  

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

noun

Scot. and North England.

plural

blaeberries

1. whortleberry.

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blaeberry British  

/ ˈbleɪbərɪ /

noun

1. another name for bilberry bilberry

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Etymology

Origin of blaeberry

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

Example Sentences

He was the one to find plovers' eggs, and to spot a blaeberry patch.

From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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

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

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)