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

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

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

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

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 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