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

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)

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 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

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

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 Rogers, Charles