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blaeberry|ˈbleɪbɛrɪ, ˈblɪə-|
Also (5 blabery), 6 ble-, 9 blea-, blay-, bleeaberry.
[f. blae + berry: in ON. bláber, Sw. blåbär, Du. blaabær.]
1. The common name in Scotland and the north of England of the bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium Myrtillus). Applied to fruit and plant.
[1483Cath. Angl. 33 A Blabery.] 1562Turner Herbal ii. L j, Takyng the bleberries or hurtel berries. a1758Ramsay Poems (1800) II. 107 (Jam.) Gif I could find blae⁓berries ripe for thee. 1822T. Bewick Mem. 256 The creeping groundlings, the blea-berry, the wild strawberry, the hare⁓bell. 1861Geikie in Gd. Words Feb. 76/1 Yonder pastoral glens, where we boys were wont to gather blaeberries and junipers. 1862Corn. Mag. V. 457 Branches loaded with the tiny purple blae berry, the bloom yet fresh on them.
2. Also applied to cognate species.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xix. (1856) 143 Here I saw the bleaberry (vaccinium uliginosum) in flower and in fruit. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 353. |