Blackberry

Definitions: Blackberry

Blackberry

Noun

1. Large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus.

2. Bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle.

Verb

1. Pick or gather blackberries; "The children went blackberrying".

Date "blackberry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Blackberry

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Fruit of the Rubus fruticosus and of the Rubus chamaemorus. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: BlackBerry

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The BlackBerry is a handheld wireless device providing e-mail, telephone, text messaging and world wide web browsing services.

External link

Research in Motion , the manufacturer of the BlackBerry.

This article is about the fruit. For other uses see blackberry (disambiguation) A blackberry is any of several species of bramble fruit (Rubus, Rosaceae). In the technical jargon of botany, it is not a berry at all, but instead an aggregated fruit of drupelets.

Widespread and well known shrub (Continental Europe) growing to 3m (10ft) producing a soft bodied fruit popular for making jams and sometimes wine. A very variable species composed of many sub-species, scrambling habit of dense arching stems carrying short curved very sharp spines, the branches rooting from the node tip when they reach the ground. Very pervasive, growing at fast daily rates in woods, scrub, hillsides and hedgerows, colonising large areas in a relatively short time. It will tolerate poor soil, and is an early coloniser of wasteland and building sites. Palmate leaves of 3 - 5 leaflets with flowers of white or pink appearing from May to August, ripening to a black or dark purple fruit, 'blackberries'.

Superstition (in the UK) holds that blackberries should not be picked after September 15th as the devil has claimed them having left a mark on the leaves. Related to the smaller R. caesius which produces a white waxy coating on the fruits. It is not advisable to use or eat Blackberries growing close to roadsides due to the accumulated toxins (lead Etc.) from the traffic.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BlackBerry."

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Synonym: Blackberry

Synonym: blackberry bush (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Blackberry

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Food	Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Blackberry

English words defined with "blackberry": acinar, acinus, aggregate fruit ♦ Belamcanda chinensis, berry, blackberry bush, Blackberry lily, blackberry-lily ♦ Cane borer, compound ♦ dewberry, dewberry bush ♦ leopard lily ♦ mulberry, mulberry tree, multiple fruit ♦ Negro bug ♦ Pithy gall ♦ Rubus cuneifolius, Rubus fruticosus, Rubus ursinus, running blackberry ♦ sand blackberry, swamp blackberry, syncarp ♦ true blackberry ♦ western blackberry, western dewberry. (references)

Specialty definitions using "blackberry": Carmelite. (references)

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Modern Usage: Blackberry

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Blackberry, boysenberry. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Blueberry, blackberry. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)
Movie/TV Titles	The Blackberry Inn (1995) Blackberry Subway Jam (1984)
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Commercial Usage: Blackberry

Domain	Title
Books	Billy Blackberry (reference) Blackberry Cove Herbal: Healing With Common Herbs in the Appalachian Wise-Woman Tradition (reference) Blackberry Ink (reference) Blackberry Surprise (reference) Blackberry Wine: A Novel (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Blackberry Records Presents Songs Mama Use To Sing (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Ellisor: Conversations In Silence; Blackberry Winter; Barber: Canzonetta; Scearce: Endymion's Sleep; Mock: The Stone; (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	HANDANGO BlackBerry Essentials Suite (reference) IConcepts Car Charger For BlackBerry Rim 957 (reference) RIM 950 Blackberry Internet Edition Wireless Handheld (reference) RIM BLACKBERRY MODULE FOR THE (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Image Slideshow: Blackberry

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Photo Album: Blackberry

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Scanning Electron Micrograph of Blackberry drupelet.Credit: CDC.		Black Butte is a new blackberry release by ARS scientists in Corvallis, Oregon. Fruit averages 1 inch in diameter, and 2 inches long, and weighs almost twice as much as other varieties of fresh blackberries. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
	Wild Blackberry (Rubus ursinus) along the West Fork Evans Creek.Credit: Terry Tuttle.		Wife of farmer now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) roadwork making blackberry pie. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Wife of farmer now on WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) roadwork making blackberry pie. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.		Migrant agricultural worker dishing up the noonday lunch of blackberry pie while camped by the roadside east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.
	White migrant family eating lunch of blackberry pie on the highway east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.		Son of white migrant eating lunch of blackberry pie along the highway east of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Use in Literature: Blackberry

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He slipped through the fence, edged in among vines and blackberry bushes.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Blackberry

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J.
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Spoken Usage: Blackberry

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Strawberry Zinfandel goes with Filet o' Fish or Chicken McNuggets while Boone's Blackberry Ridge should be reserved for McRibb or a Quarter Pounder.
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Usage Frequency: Blackberry

"Blackberry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.89% of the time. "Blackberry" is used about 76 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)	57.89%	44	51,500
Noun (proper)	42.11%	32	61,292
Total	100.00%	76	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Blackberry

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "blackberry".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Kirjath-sannah	N/A	Biblical	Of a blackberry bush
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Expressions: Blackberry

Expressions using "blackberry": blackberry bush ♦ Blackberry lily ♦ running blackberry ♦ sand blackberry ♦ swamp blackberry ♦ true blackberry ♦ western blackberry. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "blackberry": blackberry-coloured, blackberry-lily, blackberry-picking, blackberry-wild.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blackberry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
blackberry	2,670	blackberry bush	47
blackberry reset rim	501	nextel blackberry	46
blackberry cobbler	320	blackberry title	42
blackberry farm	236	7230 blackberry	41
agriculture blackberry	181	blackberry plant	39
blackberry cobbler recipe	162	blackberry phone	38
blackberry rim	148	blackberry importer	38
blackberry recipe	139	blackberry handheld	37
blackberry pie	105	blackberry wine	35
6210 blackberry	100	blackberry game	35
blackberry pda	86	blackberry inn	32
blackberry wireless	69	blackberry wine recipe	30
blackberry 6710	67	blackberry tree	30
blackberry accessory	65	inn at blackberry farm	29
blackberry pie recipe	62	blackberry growing	29
blackberry 6510	59	blackberry jelly	28
blackberry jam	56	blackberry seller	26
blackberry software	53	blackberry 957	26
blackberry jam recipe	48	blackberry application	26
blackberry 6750	48	blackberry molasses	22
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Modern Translations: Blackberry

Language		Translations for "blackberry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		manaferrë (dewberry), ferrë (blackthorn, prick, thorn, thorny bush). (various references)

Arabic		‏علية, ‏ثمر العليق, ‏شجرة العليق. (various references)

Bavarian		brumbean (blackberry bush, bramble). (various references)

Bulgarian		къпина (bramble). (various references)

Chinese		黑�"子 , 黑�". (various references)

Cornish		moren du. (various references)

Czech		ostružina (bramble). (various references)

Danish		brombær (blackberry bush, bramble, brambleberry, bramblebush). (various references)

Dutch		braam (blackberry bush, bramble, brambleberry, bramblebush, burr, fin, flash, flush, overflow, overflush, overpress, spew). (various references)

Esperanto		rubusbero. (various references)

Farsi		توت سیاه , شاه توت . (various references)

Finnish		karhunvatukka (brambleberry). (various references)

French		mûre sauvage (blackberry bush), mûre. (various references)

Frisian		toarnbei. (various references)

German		Brombeere (boysenberry, bramble, brambleberry). (various references)

Greek		βατόμουρο (brambleberry, raspberry). (various references)

Hebrew		אוכמ� ית (bramble). (various references)

Hungarian		földi szeder (bramble). (various references)

Indonesian		buah (focus, fruit, result). (various references)

Irish		sméar dubh. (various references)

Italian		mora (arrears, brunette, delay, mulberry, negress). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'苺 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くろいち�". (various references)

Manx		thammag ghress (blackberry bush), smeyr ghreiney (late blackberry, stone bramble), scraaney (late blackberry), pye smeyragh (blackberry pie), puiddin smeyragh (blackberry pudding), dress (blackberry bush, bramble, briar). (various references)

Pig Latin		ackberryblay

Portuguese		amora silvestre (brambleberry), amora (brambleberry, mulberry, raspberry). (various references)

Romanian		mur. (various references)

Russian		ежевика (bramble, dewberry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kupina (bramble). (various references)

Spanish		zarzamora (blackberry bush, bramble, brambleberry, bramblebush), zarza (blackberry bush, bramble, bramblebush, briar, brier). (various references)

Swedish		björnbär (blackberries, blackberry bush, bramble, dewberry). (various references)

Thai		ผลไม้สี�"ำขนา�"เล็ก. (various references)

Turkish		böğürtlen (blackberry bush, bramble, dewberry). (various references)

Turkmen		bцwьrslen. (various references)

Ukranian		чорна смородина, ожина (bramble, bramble-berry, dew-berry). (various references)

Vietnamese		muốn bao nhiêu cũng có. (various references)

Welsh		mwyaren du. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Blackberry

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	rubenitas, rubenites, rubenitis, rubi, rubo, rubum, rubus, Rubus fruticosus. (various references)
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Bible Trace: Blackberry

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 6, Verse 44
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ekaston gar dendron ek tou idiou karpou ginwsketai ou gar ex akanqwn sullegousin suka oude ek batou trugwsin stafulhn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Unaquaeque enim arbor de fructu suo cognoscitur neque enim de spinis colligunt ficus neque de rubo vindemiant uvam
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ælc treow is be his wæstme oncnawen; Ne hig of þornum ficæppla ne gaderiað: ne winberian on gorste ne nimað;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For euery tre is knowun of his fruyt. And men gaderen not figus of thornes, nethir men gaderen a grape of a buysche of breris.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	For every tree is knowen by his frute. Nether of thornes gader men fygges nor of busshes gader they grapes.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For every tree is known by its own fruit: for from thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush do they gather grapes.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.
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Matched Bible Translations: Blackberry

Language	Luke Chapter 6, Verse 44
Cebuano	kay ang matag-kahoy maila pinaagi sa iyang bunga. Kay walay mga igos nga anha popoa gikan sa kasampinitan, ni mga parras gikan sa kadyapaan.
Croatian	Ta svako se stablo po svom plodu poznaje. S trnja se ne beru smokve niti se s gloga grožðe trga."
Danish	Thi hvert Træ kendes på sin egen Frugt; thi man sanker ikke Figener af Torne, ikke heller plukker man Vindruer af en Tornebusk.
Dutch	Want ieder boom wordt uit zijn eigen vrucht gekend; want men leest geen vijgen van doornen, en men snijdt geen druif van bramen.
Finnish	sillä jokainen puu tunnetaan hedelmästään. Eihän viikunoita koota orjantappuroista, eikä viinirypäleitä korjata orjanruusupensaasta.
French	Car chaque arbre se connaît � son fruit. On ne cueille pas des figues sur des épines, et l`on ne vendange pas des raisins sur des ronces.
German	Ein jeglicher Baum wird an seiner eigenen Frucht erkannt. Denn man liest nicht Feigen von den Dornen, auch liest man nicht Trauben von den Hecken.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Setiap pohon dikenal dari buahnya. Belukar berduri tidak menghasilkan buah ara, dan semak berduri tidak menghasilkan buah anggur.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	sebab tiap-tiap pohon kayu dikenal daripada buahnya sendiri, karena daripada pokok duri tiada orang memetik buah ara, dan daripada semak duri tiada orang memetik buah anggur.
Italian	Ogni albero infatti si riconosce dal suo frutto: non si raccolgono fichi dalle spine, né si vendemmia uva da un rovo.
Latvian	Ikvienu koku pazîst no tâ augïiem. Jo no çrkðíiem nesalasa vîìes, un no dadþiem neievâc vînogas.
Manx Gaelic	Son ta dy chooilley villey er ny chronnaghey liorish e vess: son cha vel mess y villey figgagh er ny heiy jeh drineyn, ny mess y villey-feeyney jeh thammag-ghress.
Maori	Ma ona hua tonu ka mohiotia ai tenei rakau, tenei rakau. E kore hoki e kohia he piki i runga i nga tataramoa, e kore ano e whakaiia he karepe i runga i te tumatakuru.
Norwegian	For hvert tre kjennes på sin frukt; en sanker jo ikke fiken av tornebusker, og en plukker ikke vindruer av tornekratt.
Rumanian	Cqci orice pom se cunoawte dupq roada lui. Nu se strkng smochine din spini, nici nu se culeg struguri din mqrqcini.
Russian	Й�'П ЧУСЛПЕ �"ЕТЕЧП � ПЪОБЈФУС � П � МП�"Х УЧПЕНХ, � ПФПНХ ЮФП ОЕ УП�'ЙТБАФ УНПЛЧ У ФЕТОПЧОЙЛБ Й ОЕ УОЙНБАФ ЧЙОПЗТБ�"Б У ЛХУФБТОЙЛБ.
Shuar	Numisha ni neren nékanui. Tsachikniumiasha kushinkiap Júukchamniaiti. Tura naranmaya shuinia Júukchamniaiti.
Spanish	Porque cada árbol es conocido por su fruto; pues no se recogen higos de los espinos, ni tampoco se vendimian uvas de una zarza.
Swahili	Watu huutambua mti kutokana na matunda yake. Ni wazi kwamba watu hawachumi tini katika michongoma, wala hawachumi zabibu katika mbigili.
Swedish	vart och ett träd kännes ju igen på sin frukt. Icke hämtar man väl fikon ifrån törnen, ej heller skördar man vindruvor av törnbuskar.
Uma	Butu nyala kaju ra'inca kalompe' -na hi powua' -na. Wua' ara uma rahopu' ngkai walaa to morui. Wua' anggur uma rahopu' ngkai jilata.
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Rhyming with "Blackberry"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "blackberry" (pronounced bla"kbe'rē)
6	-a" k b e' r ē	hackberry.
4	-b e' r ē	blueberry, cranberry, Dewberry, Dogberry, gooseberry, 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, diversionary, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, hereditary, honorary, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, 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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Anagrams: Blackberry

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-e-k-l-r-r-y"
	-3 letters: blacker, clabber, crabber, rabbler.
	-4 letters: backer, bakery, balker, barbel, barber, barely, barker, barley, barrel, bleary, bracer, brayer, calker, carrel, crabby, creaky, lacker, lackey, larker, rabble, racker, rackle, rarely, rerack, yabber.
	-5 letters: abbey, abler, acerb, babel, baker, baler, balky, barbe, barer, barky, barre, barye, beaky, belay, berry, beryl, black, blare, bleak, blear, brace, brake.
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