Blueberry Meaning
/ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
nounThe shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
Sentence Examples
Please hide the blueberry jam where Takako can't see it.
He prepared the blueberry sauce with which to flavor the duck.
CEFR Practice Quiz
For breakfast, she enjoyed a fresh muffin filled with a sweet purple ____ fruit.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I added some fresh ____ to my cereal for a healthy and sweet snack.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English blue Middle English berye English berry English blueberry From blue + berry.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Applesaucey Tricks Galore / Looks elaborate but isn’t: Take bakers sponge cake shells. In each one put a big spoonful of canned apple sauce, then a scoop of vanilla ice cream and top all with blueberry sauce, or with the fresh berries."
— 1962 July 29, Features Magazine (Wichita Falls Times), Wichita Falls, Tex., page 20, column 1:
"“And the Majestic Milky Way is pretty popular as well,” said Chad, whose personal favorite is the new Berry Potter, with vanilla ice cream, swirling blueberries and graham crackery Muggle crunch (Muggles are non-magic folk in the Harry Potter empire)."
— 2006 August 10, Dick Johnson, “Ice cream: You never get sick of the stuff, workers say”, in Globe Gazette, Mason City, Ia., page A2, column 5:
"On sol 46 (March 11, 2004 on Earth), Opportunity gathered data on a cluster of blueberries and confirmed the team's suspicions that this area of Mars once contained liquid water."
— 2023, Katie L. Carroll, Selfies From Mars: The True Story of Mars Rover Opportunity, page 2:
"> > > > > > The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or
> > > > > > Lime.
[…]
> > > Periwinkle, now renamed blueberry. Second choice, orange peel.
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> > It looks to my eye that "blueberry" is, uh, bluer than "periwinkle."
[…]
On-site, Blueberry looked blueberrier than Periwinkle, but it does follow the Fruit Names theme more closely."
— 2007 September 9, Veronique, “Bowls”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2024:
"Breyers finds the sweetest, sunniest blueberries. Gently presses their just-picked flavor into a smooth puree. Then mixes lavishly with Breyers famous Vanilla Ice Cream. The result—the tastiest blueberriest flavor ever!"
— 1964 August 24, Breyers, “blueberry vanilla ice cream”, in The Daily Record, volume 75, number 122, Stroudsburg, Pa., page 5:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
For breakfast, she enjoyed a fresh muffin filled with a sweet purple ____ fruit.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I added some fresh ____ to my cereal for a healthy and sweet snack.