Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous plants of the genus Vaccinium, having white to reddish, urn-shaped or tubular flowers and edible blue to blue-black berries.
- n. The fruit of any of these plants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In America: The fruit of several species of Vaccinium, ordinarily distinguished from the various kinds of huckleberry by its blue color and smaller seeds. The swamp or tall blueberry is the Vaccinium corymbosum; the low blueberry, V. vacillans; and the dwarf blueberry, V. Pennsylvanicum. See bilberry.
- n. Another name of the cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroides.
- n. In Australia: The fruit of the blueberry-tree, or the tree itself.
- n. The berry-like fruit of Dianella lævis, of the lily family.
Wiktionary
- n. An edible round berry belonging to the cowberry family. (A botanically false berry.) It has flared "crowns" at the end that turn blue on ripening.
- n. The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
- n. A dark blue colour.
- adj. Of a dark blue colour.
- v. To gather or forage for blueberries.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
- n. sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants
Etymologies
- blue + berry (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Kids who are 2 and 3 think the word blueberry is incredibly funny.”
“They all sound yummy, but lemon-blueberry is one of my all-time favorite combos, so that gets my vote!”
“One time I made blueberry pancakes and forgot to put the baking powder in, which resulted in blueberry hockey pucks that were barely edible.”
“All work is expression," Fra Elbertus says, so why may I not express myself in blueberry pie and tomato soup?”
“The findings of this preliminary study suggest that moderate-term blueberry supplementation can confer neurocognitive benefit," write researcher Robert Krikorian, of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, and colleagues in the”
“Who would've thunk that the blueberry is a "super fruit?”
“That said I like the idea of blueberry and buttermilk and will have to try this recipe next time I have a hankering for pancakes.”
“These look amazing ive never had american style pancakes but the idea of blueberry and buttermilk sounds great.”
“The vanilla was creamy and wonderful; the blueberry was a little flat-- not enough berries for my taste; and the banana was smooth and surprisingly good-- I say that because I usually hate banana ice cream.”
“I used the Icelandic blueberry, which is smaller, crisper and slightly more bitter than the blueberries I grew up with.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blueberry’.
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color (purple)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, purple, descriptive, randomness )purple, Cloud, Web, Blue, Blush, Grey, Magenta, Lilac, Orchid, Plum, Fuchsia, Fuchsia Pink and 112 more...
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blue phrases/words
how blue is used
blue and white, blue apron, blue-aproned, blue-arsed fly, blue asbestos, blue ash, blue-assed fly, blue baby, blue-backed, blue bag, blue balls, blue band and 370 more...
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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A _____ walks into a bar...
horse, bear, termite, grasshopper, panda, cowboy, guy with a chunk ..., duck, talking dog, guy with a toad o..., guy, blind man and 74 more...
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My Favorites
peanut, chipmunk, pearl, blueberry, graceful, poof, scrumptious, corny, scrambled, blimp, classy, butterfly and 1 more...
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Fruits
orange, banana, lime, lemon, pineapple, apple, papaya, blueberry, mulberry, cranberry, pear, raspberry and 16 more...
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Lord of the Pies
Pastry words anyone?
crust, starry gazey pie, oven, pan, apple, blueberry, rhubarb, key lime, pumpkin, dough, flour, cherpumple and 17 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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We All Scream for It: Ben & Jerry's I...
Just for John. Including retired flavors--or, as B & J's calls them, the Flavor Graveyard. :-)
Updated 9/2011.banana split, berried treasure, berry berry extra..., black raspberry, brownie batter, butter pecan, cake batter, cherry garcia, chocolate, chocolate chip co..., chocolate fudge b..., chocolate macadamia and 341 more...
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words my 19-month-old daughter says
We'll skip people's names.
basketball, light, railroad, mommy, daddy, up, hand, gate, walk, kitty, doggie, cat and 145 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for blueberry.

hernesheir A strain of medicinal marijuana. Jan 15, 2010
reesetee Trader Joe's! It's the best. :-) Apr 7, 2008
bilby That's beautiful Pro. Apr 7, 2008
Prolagus This blueberry walks into a bar is a product you can find in a natural food store here in the USA.
Apr 7, 2008
misterpolly I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill, when I found you
My heart stood still on Blueberry Hill
and lingered until
my dreams came true.
a.k.a. bilberry in British English and Whinberry in Northern England Dec 8, 2007