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Definition: Blueberry |
BlueberryNoun1. Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries. 2. Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blueberry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references) |
Note: Blueberry \Blue"berry\, noun. [Compare to Blaeberry.]. (references) |
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For the comic book character see Mike Blueberry
Blueberry
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Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ericales Family: Ericaceae Genus: Vaccinium Species: corymbosum Binomial nomenclature Vaccinium corymbosum L. Ref: ITIS 23573 The blueberry, Vaccinium sp. (The genus Vaccinium also includes Cranberries and many many wild berries used by wildlife) is a shrub producing edible round blue berries with flared "crowns" at the end. The berries are first white, then reddish-purple, and turn blue on ripening; the berries themselves are also called blueberries, and have a sweet taste. Blueberries are used in jellies, jams, pies, and many other snacks and delicacies.
Blueberries are both cultivated and picked wild. In North America the most common cultivated species is V. carymbosum, the northern highbush blueberry. Some hybrids of this with other Vaccinium species, are adapted to southern US and are known collectively as southern highbush blueberries.
Although wild blueberries are much more expensive than cultivated ones, they are smaller and have a more intense flavour and colour. The lowbush blueberry, V. augustifolium, is found from Newfundland westward and southward to Michigan and West Virginia. In some areas it produces natural blueberry barrens, where it is practically the only species for large acreages. Several First Nations communities in Ontario are involved in producing wild blueberries.
In the US, Maine is a very large producer of lowbush blueberries. The Maine crop requires about 50,000 beehives for pollination, almost all of which are trucked from other states. Michigan, New York and New Jersey are large producers of highbush blueberries.
Rabbiteye, V. ashei, is a southern type of blueberry produced from the Carolinas to the Gulf Coast states in the US.
Other important species in North America include V. pallidum, the hillside or dryland blueberry. It is native to eastern USA, but common in the Appalachians and the Piedmont of the Southeast. Sparkleberry, V. arboreum, is a common wild species on sandy soils in the southeastern US. Its berries are important to wildlife, and an important honey plant for beekeepers.
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Mike Blueberry is a comic book character created in the early sixties by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud, and quickly developed into one of the best selling series in French comics. Blueberry began the series as a Lieutenant in the US Cavalry short after the American Civil War.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mike Blueberry."
Synonym: BlueberrySynonym: blueberry bush (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Blueberry |
| English words defined with "blueberry": berry, bilberry, blaeberry, blueberry yogurt ♦ deerberry ♦ mountain blue berry ♦ squaw huckleberry ♦ thin-leaved bilberry ♦ Vaccinium stamineum, Viccinium membranaceum, Viccinium myrtillus ♦ whinberry, whortleberry. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blueberry": Vaccinium. (references) |
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Screenplays | Blueberry, blackberry (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) For God's sake, man, she's 18, and you have the emotional stability of a blueberry scone (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) They're not Chinese fighting muffins, they're blueberry! (Charlie's Angels; writing credit: Ivan Goff; Ben Roberts) I'll have a blueberry muffin, with a decaf (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) He imagined he was eating cow flops, and rat guts in blueberry sauce (Stand By Me; writing credit: Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans. Based on the story 'The Body' by Stephen King.) | |
Lyrics | For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill ("Blueberry Hill"; performing artist: Fats Domino) I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill ("Blueberry Hill"; performing artist: Fats Domino) On Blueberry Hill when I found you ("Blueberry Hill"; performing artist: Fats Domino) | |
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 | (3) color slides of a single muffin. (2) blueberry, (1) plain. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Early low blueberry - Vaccinium vacillans at Swift. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Blueberry plants P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | ARS geneticist Lisa J. Rowland has collected leaf tissue samples from blueberry plants for DNA analysis and genome mapping. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Rutgers University farm supervisor Richard DeStefano operates a ride-on water reel cranberry harvester at the Blueberry and Cranberry Research Center at Chatsworth, New Jersey. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | Airing bedding, blueberry pickers camp near Little Fork, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Indian children in blueberry camp near Little Fork, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tent of Indian blueberry picker. Littlefork, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blueberry swamp and cut-over hillside. Florence County, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Humphreys, residence on Blueberry Lane, Darien, Connecticut. Dining room. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Blueberry Blossoms" by Peter E. Leonard Commentary: "Blueberry Blossoms <br> <br>Free to use for any purpose, but I would appreciate credit for the photo: <br> <br>©2002 Peter E. Leonard." | "Strawberry blueberry cake" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Strawberry blueberry cake." |
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Economic History | Taiwan | While broad market preference for core juice flavors is not expected to change, Taiwan retailers' penchant for new and niche flavors provides opportunities for more innovative juices and juice blends such as cranberry, blueberry, and others. (references) |
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| "Blueberry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blueberry" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blueberry": blueberry bush ♦ blueberry pie ♦ blueberry root ♦ blueberry yogurt ♦ dryland blueberry ♦ dwarf blueberry ♦ European Blueberry ♦ evergreen blueberry ♦ low blueberry ♦ rabbiteye blueberry ♦ swamp blueberry. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "blueberry": blueberry-grey. | |
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| Language | Translations for "blueberry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | boronicë (bilberry, blaeberry, cowberry, Huckleberry). (various references) | |
Bavarian | daubean (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ótsskoyiini. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | боровинка (bilberry, blaeberry, cowberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蓝莓. (various references) | |
Danish | blåbær (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Dutch | bosbes (bilberry, cowberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mirtelo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bláber (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Farsi | قره قاط, زغال اخته (Dogwood, Huckleberry), ایدااریزا. (various references) | |
Finnish | mustikka (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
French | myrtille. (various references) | |
Frisian | blebberbei (bilberry, cowberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
German | heidelbeere (bilberry, Huckleberry, whortleberry), blaubeere (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Greek | βακκίνιο (cowberry), είδοσ βατόμουρου (bilberry, dewberry), είδοσ μούρου (boysenberry, cranberry, loganberry, youngberry). (various references) | |
Hungarian | áfonya (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Indonesian | arbei (strawberry). (various references) | |
Italian | mirtillo (bilberry, Huckleberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブリッジ回路 (bloomers, blue, blue backs, Blue Bird, blue book, blue boy, blue chip, blue day, blue film, Blue Impulse, blue Monday, Blue Ribbon, blue sex, blue train, blue-black, blue-collar worker, blueglass, blues, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, bridge circuit, brilliant, brilliant cut, British Airways, British Columbia, broom, Brussels, Bulgaria, bull, Burkina Faso, childpornography), homosexual, shops where girls' uniforms and underwear are resold to dirty old men, sleeping train). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブルーベリー . (various references) | |
Korean | 들쭉. (various references) | |
Norwegian | blåbær (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ueberryblay.(various references) | |
Polish | borówka (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Portuguese | arando (bilberry, cranberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Romanian | afinå (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Russian | черника черничный, черника (bilberry, blaeberry, blue-berry, Huckleberry, whortleberry), голубичка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | borovnica (bilberry, blaeberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Spanish | mantequilla (bilberry, butter, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåbär (bilberry, blaeberry, heathberry, huckleberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
Thai | ผลบลูเบอร์รี่. (various references) | |
Turkish | yabanmersini (bilberry), yaban mersíne (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Vaccinium spp.. (various references) |
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"Blueberry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blaeberry, Bleaberry, Blewberry, Blewbery, Bluesberry, blueyer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blueberry" (pronounced bluw"be'rē) |
| 5 | -uw" b e' r ē | Dewberry. |
| 4 | -b e' r ē | Blackberry, cranberry, Dogberry, gooseberry, hackberry, Huckleberry, mulberry, raspberry, strawberry, Tilbury. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, hereditary, honorary, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, subsidiary, temporary, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-e-e-l-r-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: burbler, rubbery. | |
-3 letters: blurry, burble, burbly, burler, burley, lubber, rebury, rubber, rubble, rubbly. | |
-4 letters: beery, berry, beryl, bluer, bluey, blurb, burly, burry, buyer, leery, lurer, rebbe, rebel, rebuy, ruble, ruler. | |
-5 letters: beer, bleb, blub, blue, blur, bree, bulb, burl, burr, bury, byre, byrl, eely, eery, eyer, eyre, leer, lube, lure, lyre, reel, rely, rube. | |
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