blackberry
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A small dark purple or black fruit made of many tiny round parts, growing on a bush with sharp thorns.
We picked blackberries along the path and ate them straight away.
She makes wonderful jam from blackberries every September.
Be careful, the blackberry bushes are full of sharp thorns.
My fingers turned purple from all the blackberry juice.
Common collocations: pick blackberries · blackberry jam · wild blackberries · blackberry bush · blackberry and apple pie
Forms
- plural
- blackberries