blackberry

1. 1.

   pick or gather blackberries

   “The children went blackberrying”

   Broaderberry

Other forms of blackberry

plural

blackberries·

past tense or participle

blackberried

present participle

blackberrying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blackberry

What does blackberry mean?

blackberry means "large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackberry?

blackberry has 3 syllables: black-ber-ry. The stress falls on "black". In IPA it is /ˈblækˌbɛɹi/.

What is another word for blackberry?

Close synonyms include blackberry bush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blackberry a common word?

blackberry is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with blackberry?

16 words rhyme with blackberry. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.