blaeberry
Americannoun
plural
blaeberriesnoun
Etymology
Origin of blaeberry
1375–1425; late Middle English (north) blaberie. See blae, berry
Example Sentences
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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)
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
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 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
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