different between blackberry vs barberry

English

Etymology

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu ber?e, blæcber?e (attested in plural blaca ber?an, equivalent to black +? berry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?blækb??i/, /?blækb?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blækbe?i/

Noun

blackberry (plural blackberries)

1. A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

2. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

3. (Britain, dialectal) The blackcurrant.

Derived terms

• plenty as blackberries

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Verb

blackberry (third-person singular simple present blackberries, present participle blackberrying, simple past and past participle blackberried)

1. To gather or forage for blackberries.
   • 1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books (2006), ?ISBN, page 111:

     My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

   • 2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ?ISBN, page 72:

     My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

   • 2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image (2004), ?ISBN, page 48:

     Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

Derived terms

• blackberrying

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Further reading

• blackberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rubus fruticosus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Etymology

From Middle English berberie, from Medieval Latin berberis, on which see Arabic ???????????? (barb?r?s). Doublet of berberis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??b??i/

Noun

barberry (plural barberries)

1. Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.

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References

• Berberis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Berberis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Berberis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• barberry at USDA Plants database