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What is the difference between blueberry and berry?

blueberry | berry |

Blueberry is a derived term of berry.


As nouns the difference between blueberry and berry

is that blueberry is an edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening while berry is a small fruit, of any one of many varieties or berry can be a mound; a barrow or berry can be (dialectal) a burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.

As verbs the difference between blueberry and berry

is that blueberry is to gather or forage for while berry is to pick berries or berry can be to beat; give a beating to; thrash.

As a adjective blueberry

is of a dark blue colour.

blueberry

English

(wikipedia blueberry)

Noun

(blueberries)
  • An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
  • The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
  • A dark blue colour.

    • Derived terms

    * highbush blueberry * lowbush blueberry * wild blueberry * cultivated blueberry * Martian blueberry

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a dark blue colour.

    • Verb

  • To gather or forage for .
  • * 1939 , Kathrene Pinkerton, Wilderness Life , Carrick and Evans (1939), page 179:
    • We blueberried on an open flat beside the river. The ground was covered with great frosted blue globules, sweet and warm in the sunshine.
  • * 1947 , Robert Wallcott & Albert Hale, "What People Talk About", Daily Boston Globe , 26 August 1947:
    • The "white longlegged, long-necked bird" seen by your Ayer reader while she was blueberrying on the shore of a pond was either the Little Blue Heron in white phase or immature,
  • * 1951 , Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale , Pantheon (1951), page 62:
    • They had not passed again in the surrey going to the Forks, nine miles away, and none of the girls had been blueberrying among the bushes at the edge of the woods.
  • * 1988 , Ms. Magazine , Volume 17, Issues 1-6, page 38:
    • Sarah and I have been blueberrying together off and on since the summer of '64. This morning, armed with our pots and pans, we went out and picked two quarts of wild berries and then came home and made a cake.
  • * 2000 , Robert Dash, Notes from Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons , Houghton Mifflin Company (2000), ISBN 9780618016921, page 152:
    • Pointy fraise de bois went through it all with undiminished generosity (so small a plant for all that giving!) and the picking was fine, for the birds were off blueberrying and taking the late raspberries just as they ripened.
  • * 2000 , Edward Hoagland, "A Peaceable Kingdom", in Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life , The Lyons Press (2000), ISBN 9781585741823, page 61:
    • On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness.
  • * 2002 , Loretta Ellsworth, The Shrouding Woman , Henry Holt and Company (2002), ISBN 9781429932462, unnumbered page:
    • "Come, Aunt Flo. I'll show you where we go blueberrying . Last year we got almost a bushel of berries, and Papa says they should be ripe now."
  • * 2002 , Lois Kenyon Pesanelli, His Hand Upon Me for Miracles , 1st Books Library (2002), ISBN 140330095X, page 14:
    • We decided to go blueberrying one day up in our hills. We grabbed our blueberry cans, hitched them to our belts, and headed for the blueberries.

    See also

    * * bilberry * ericaceous * whortleberry

    berry

    English

    (wikipedia berry)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Vladimir Orel, ''A Handbook of Germanic Etymology , s.v. “*?azjan” (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 40.

    Noun

    (berries)
  • A small fruit, of any one of many varieties.
  • (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
  • A coffee bean.
  • One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
    • (Travis)
    Derived terms
    * apple-berry * Avignon berry * baneberry * barberry * bayberry * bearberry * beautyberry * the berries * berry alder * berry-bearing alder * berry-button * berrying * berryless * berry sugar * berry wax * bilberry, billberry * blackberry * blaeberry * blueberry * boxberry * boysenberry * bramberry * brambleberry * bread-berry * buckthorn berry * buffalo berry, buffalo-berry, buffaloberry * bulberry, bullberry, bull berry * bunchberry * candleberry * cassioberry * checker-berry, checkerberry * China-berry, chinaberry * choke-berry, chokeberry * Christmas berry * cloudberry * coffee-berry * coral-berry, coralberry * cow-berry, cowberry * crackerberry * cranberry * crowberry * cubeb berry * curlew-berry * dabbery, dayberry, deberry * deerberry * dew-berry, dewberry * dangleberry, tangleberry * dingleberry * dogberry * dway-berry * egg-berry * elderberry * farkleberry * feaberry * fen-berry * foxberry * French berry * fryberry * gallberry * gooseberry * guavaberry * hackberry, hagberry, heckberry, hegberry * heathberry, heath-berry * hedge-berry, hedgeberry * heurtleberry, hurtleberry * hillberry * hindberry * honeyberry * hound-berry, hound's-berry * huckleberry * hurtleberry * ink-berry, inkberry * ivenberry, ivy-berry * Juneberry * knotberry, knoutberry * lemonade berry * lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry * logan berry, loganberry * marionberry * marlberry * moss-berry, mossberry * mulberry * myrtle-berry * nannyberry * naseberry * nessberry * nub-berry * one-berry * oso-berry * partridge berry, partridge-berry, partridgeberry * peaberry * Persian berry * pigeon-berry * poison berry * pokeberry * quinsy-berry * raccoon-berry, racoon-berry * ramble-berry * raspberry * Rhein-berry * riberry * roan-berry, rowan-berry * roebuck-berry * rumberry * salal berry * salmon berry, salmonberry * scald-berry * sea-berry * service-berry, serviceberry * shadberry * sheepberry * silverberry * smurfberry * snowberry * soapberry * sparkleberry * spiceberry * strawberry * sugar berry, sugar-berry, sugarberry * sunberry * tayberry * tea-berry, teaberry * tetter-berry * thimbleberry * timberry * tummelberry * twinberry * veitchberry * wax-berry, waxberry * wheat berry * whinberry * whortleberry * wickeyberry tree * wineberry * winterberry * wolfberry * wonderberry * Worcesterberry * yellow berry * youngberry
    References

    Verb

  • To pick berries.
    • On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying , whether we wanted to go or not.
  • To bear or produce berries.
    • Usage notes
    * Unlikely to be used to refer to commercial harvesting of berries.
    Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (berries)
  • A mound; a barrow.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (berries)
  • (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
  • An excavation; a military mine.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) *.

    Verb

  • To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
  • To thresh (grain).