Blackberry vs Youngberry - What's the difference?
blackberry | youngberry |
A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
(UK, in some regions) The blackcurrant.
To gather or forage for .
* 1925 , Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway :
* 1977 , Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances , Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068,
* 2001 , Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337,
* 2004 , Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland , Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648,
A hybrid between a blackberry and a dewberry of the rose family, first cultivated in the western United States.
As nouns the difference between blackberry and youngberry
is that blackberry is a fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids while youngberry is a hybrid between a blackberry and a dewberry of the rose family, first cultivated in the western United States.As a verb blackberry
is to gather or forage for blackberries.As a proper noun BlackBerry
is a smartphone brand. The brand name of a wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, by BlackBerry Limited or by extension similar apparatus made by competitors.blackberry
English
(wikipedia blackberry) (Rubus fruticosus)Noun
(blackberries)Synonyms
* (shrub and fruit) brambleDerived terms
* blackberryingVerb
- She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
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- My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
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- My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
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- Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire ): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.
