Standard Lemma guide

blueberry

adj · name · noun · verb · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/
  • Canada: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: blu'bĕ"rē
  • US: /ˈbluˌbɛ.ɹi/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: B L UW1 B EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a dark blue colour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Resembling or characteristic of blueberries.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

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3

adj

Meaning 3

Containing blueberries.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

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4

name

Meaning 4

An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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5

name

Meaning 5

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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6

noun

Meaning 6

An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Examples

  • Meronym: anthocyanin

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: berry, fruit, produce

7

noun

Meaning 7

The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

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8

noun

Meaning 8

A dark blue colour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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9

noun

Meaning 9

A kind of small spherical hematite-rich mineral concretion found on Mars.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal

Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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10

verb

Meaning 10

To gather or forage for blueberries.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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11

noun

Meaning 11

sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: berry

12

noun

Meaning 12

any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blueberry bush

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: shrub, bush

Narrower terms: huckleberry, farkleberry, sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum, low-bush blueberry, low blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, Vaccinium pennsylvanicum, rabbiteye blueberry, rabbit-eye blueberry, rabbiteye, Vaccinium ashei, dwarf bilberry, dwarf blueberry, Vaccinium caespitosum, high-bush blueberry, tall bilberry, swamp blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, evergreen blueberry, Vaccinium myrsinites, evergreen huckleberry, Vaccinium ovatum, bilberry, thin-leaved bilberry, mountain blue berry, Viccinium membranaceum, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, bog bilberry, bog whortleberry, moor berry, Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum, dryland blueberry, dryland berry, Vaccinium pallidum, grouseberry, grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium, deerberry, squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English blue Middle English berye English berry English blueberry From blue + berry.

Across languages

Translations

180 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: mustikansininen — of a dark blue colour
  • Polish: jagodowy — of a dark blue colour
  • Gheg: manabor — plant
  • Northern Altai: карачийлек (karačiylek) — plant
  • Southern Altai: кӧккат (kökkat) — plant
  • Arabic: تُوت أَزْرَق (tūt ʔazraq) — plant
  • Arabic: بْلُو بيرِي (blū béri) — plant
  • Armenian: հապալասենի (hapalaseni) — plant
  • Aromanian: afin — plant
  • Asturian: arandanera — plant
  • Azerbaijani: cır mərsin — plant
  • Azerbaijani: cır qaragilə — plant
  • Basque: ahabia — plant
  • Catalan: nabinera — plant
  • Catalan: mirtil — plant
  • Czech: borůvka — plant
  • Danish: blåbær — plant
  • Erzya: пичумарина (pičumarina) — plant
  • Esperanto: mirtelo — plant
  • Esperanto: vakcinio — plant
  • Finnish: mustikka — plant
  • Finnish: mustikkapensas — plant
  • French: myrtille — plant
  • Galician: arandeira — plant
  • Georgian: მოცვი (mocvi) — plant
  • German: see Thesaurus:Heidelbeere — plant
  • Gwich'in: jàk zheii — plant
  • Gwich'in: jak zheii/jak nalyuu (Teetł’it) — plant
  • Hebrew: אוכמניות (ukhmaniyót) — plant
  • Ingrian: mussikka — plant
  • Italian: mirtillo — plant
  • Kyrgyz: голубика (golubika) — plant
  • Kyrgyz: черника (cernika) — plant
  • Māori: tūrutu — plant
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blåbærplante — plant
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blåbær — plant
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blåbær — plant
  • Polish: jagoda — plant
  • Polish: czarna jagoda — plant
  • Polish: borówka — plant
  • Portuguese: mirtilo — plant
  • Romanian: afin — plant
  • Romanian: coacăz negru — plant
  • Russian: голуби́ка (golubíka) — plant
  • Russian: черни́ка (černíka) — plant
  • Scottish Gaelic: lus nan dearc — plant
  • Serbo-Croatian: боровница — plant
  • Serbo-Croatian: borovnica — plant
  • Slovene: borovnica — plant
  • Spanish: arándano azul — plant
  • Spanish: mortiño azul — plant
  • Spanish: anavia azul — plant
  • Swahili: mbuluuberi — plant
  • Swedish: amerikanskt blåbär — plant
  • Turkish: yaban mersini — plant
  • Afrikaans: bloubessie — fruit
  • Ahtna: gigi gheli — fruit
  • Albanian: thrashegër — fruit
  • Albanian: kulumri — fruit
  • Albanian: boronicë — fruit
  • Albanian: qershizë — fruit
  • Albanian: qershigël — fruit
  • Gheg Albanian: manabor — fruit
  • Northern Altai: карачийлек (karačiylek) — fruit
  • Southern Altai: кӧккат (kökkat) — fruit
  • Arabic: تُوت أَزْرَق (tūt ʔazraq) — fruit
  • Arabic: بْلُو بيرِي (blū béri) — fruit
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܝܼܪܛܸܠܵܐ (mīrṭilla) — fruit
  • Armenian: հապալաս (hapalas) — fruit
  • Aromanian: afinã — fruit
  • Asturian: arándanu — fruit
  • Azerbaijani: qaragilə — fruit
  • Azerbaijani: mərcanı — fruit
  • Basque: ahabia — fruit
  • Bulgarian: боровинка (borovinka) — fruit
  • Catalan: nabiu — fruit
  • Catalan: mirtil — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 藍莓 /蓝莓 — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 藍莓 /蓝莓 (lánméi) — fruit
  • Czech: borůvka — fruit
  • Danish: blåbær — fruit
  • Dutch: blauwe bosbes — fruit
  • Erzya: пичумарь (pičumaŕ) — fruit
  • Esperanto: mirtelo — fruit
  • Estonian: mustikas — fruit
  • Faroese: bláber — fruit
  • Faroese: aðalbláber — fruit
  • Finnish: pensasmustikka — fruit
  • Finnish: mustikka — fruit
  • French: myrtille — fruit
  • French: bleuet — fruit
  • West-Frisian: blaubei — fruit
  • Friulian: cernicule — fruit
  • Friulian: glasine — fruit
  • Galician: arando — fruit
  • Georgian: მოცვი (mocvi) — fruit
  • German: see Thesaurus:Heidelbeere — fruit
  • Greek: μύρτιλο (mýrtilo) — fruit
  • Greenlandic: kigutaarnaq — fruit
  • Gwich'in: anłuh — fruit
  • Gwich'in: jak naaluu (unripe, Teetł'it) — fruit
  • Gwich'in: dindèzri’ — fruit
  • Gwich'in: dindèzrii (ripe, Teetł'it) — fruit
  • Hebrew: אוכמנית (ukhmanit) — fruit
  • Hebrew: אוכמניות (ukhmaniyót) — fruit
  • Hindi: नीलबदरी (nīlbadrī) — fruit
  • Hindi: ब्लूबेरी (blūberī) — fruit
  • Hungarian: áfonya — fruit
  • Icelandic: bláber — fruit
  • Ido: mirtelo — fruit
  • Indonesian: bluberi — fruit
  • Ingrian: mussikka — fruit
  • Irish: fraochán gorm — fruit
  • Italian: mirtillo — fruit
  • Japanese: ブルーベリー (burūberī) — fruit
  • Korean: 블루베리 (beulluberi) — fruit
  • Kyrgyz: голубика (golubika) — fruit
  • Ladin: gialvëija — fruit
  • Latgalian: meļneica — fruit
  • Latin: vaccīnium — fruit
  • Latvian: mellene — fruit
  • Lithuanian: mėlynė — fruit
  • Low German: Bickbeer — fruit
  • Luxembourgish: Molbier — fruit
  • Macedonian: боровинка (borovinka) — fruit
  • Malay: beri biru — fruit
  • Maltese: mirtilla — fruit
  • Māori: tūrutu — fruit
  • Māori: rēua — fruit
  • Mòcheno: schbòrzper — fruit
  • Mohegan-Pequot: sôht — fruit
  • Mongolian: нэрс (ners) — fruit
  • Navajo: dzidzé łikaní dootłʼizhígíí — fruit
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blåbær — fruit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blåbær — fruit
  • Occitan: abajon — fruit
  • Ojibwe: miinan — fruit
  • Old English: hǣþberġe — fruit
  • Persian: بلوبری (bluberi) — fruit
  • Plautdietsch: Heidelbäa — fruit
  • Polish: jagoda — fruit
  • Polish: czarna jagoda — fruit
  • Polish: borówka — fruit
  • Portuguese: mirtilo — fruit
  • Romanian: afină — fruit
  • Romanian: coacăză neagră — fruit
  • Romansh: izun — fruit
  • Russian: голуби́ка (golubíka) — fruit
  • Russian: черни́ка (černíka) — fruit
  • Scottish Gaelic: braoileag — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: боровница — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: borovnica — fruit
  • Slovak: čučoriedka — fruit
  • Slovene: borovnica — fruit
  • Lower Sorbian: carnica — fruit
  • Spanish: arándano — fruit
  • Spanish: mora azul — fruit
  • Spanish: arándano azul — fruit
  • Spanish: mortiño azul — fruit
  • Spanish: anavia azul — fruit
  • Swahili: buluuberi — fruit
  • Swahili: beri ya buluu — fruit
  • Swedish: amerikanskt blåbär — fruit
  • Tagalog: arandanong bughaw — fruit
  • Tamil: அவுரிநெல்லி (avurinelli) — fruit
  • Tigrinya: ሰማያዊ ጐምጠጥ (sämayawi gwämṭäṭ) — fruit
  • Tlingit: kanat'á — fruit
  • Turkish: yaban mersini — fruit
  • Ukrainian: синенька (synenʹka) — fruit
  • Ukrainian: брусника (brusnyka) — fruit
  • Ukrainian: чорниця (čornycja) — fruit
  • Vietnamese: việt quất xanh — fruit
  • Welsh: llusen America — fruit
  • Yiddish: טשערניצע (tshernitse) — fruit
  • Yiddish: אַפֿענע (afene) — fruit
  • Yup'ik: curaq — fruit
  • Finnish: mustikansininen — colour
  • Georgian: მოცვისფერი (mocvisperi) — colour
  • Polish: kolor jagodowy — colour
  • Swahili: rangi ya buluuberi — colour
Real reading context

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