Other forms: blackberries
A blackberry is a dark bramble fruit made of tiny round parts. Pick blackberries, a blackberry crumble, blackberry jam.
It grows wild on brambles in hedges across Britain and is free for the picking in late summer. Each fruit is a cluster of little drupelets rather than one berry, so a botanist will tell you a blackberry is not a berry at all.
1nounblackberryA dark bramble fruit made of tiny round parts.
“We picked blackberries from the hedge and made a pie.”
blackberry is a fruit.
Old English blaec berge, black berry. The name is as plain as it looks and is very old.
Middle English
blakberie
English, today
blackberry
Built from
From Middle English blakberie. From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan), equivalent to black + berry.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA