Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Scotch name of the bilberry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun North of Eng. & Scot. The bilberry.

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  • noun UK, Scotland, dialect The bilberry.

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  • noun erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries

Etymologies

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blae +‎ berry

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Examples

  • On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.

    Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar Ray Collier 2010

  • Blueberries are the cultivated form of the bilberry or blaeberry that grows wild in Scotland and the north of England.

    Girdle Scones (Scones Part 2) 2006

  • Blueberries are the cultivated form of the bilberry or blaeberry that grows wild in Scotland and the north of England.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • I saw first the pale blue sky through a net of heather, then a big shoulder of hill, and then my own boots placed neatly in a blaeberry bush.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • 'Tween Jeanie's broom bower and the blaeberry brae.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • In the hazel-woods the nuts bent the branches, so thick were they, so succulent; the hip and the haw, the blaeberry and the rowan, swelled grossly in a constant sun; the orchards of the richer folks were in a revelry of fruit Somehow the winter grudged, as it were, to come.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • But as their shadows lengthened across the blaeberry and heather, the silences grew longer, and Betty, striving to concentrate her interest on her book, found the page grow suddenly blurred and incomprehensible ....

    The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

  • I saw first the pale blue sky through a net of heather, then a big shoulder of hill, and then my own boots placed neatly in a blaeberry bush.

    The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist 1915

  • I saw first the pale blue sky through a net of heather, then a big shoulder of hill, and then my own boots placed neatly in a blaeberry bush.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

  • The path which Babbie took that day is lost in blaeberry leaves now, and my little maid and I lately searched for an hour before we found the well.

    The Little Minister 1898

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