different between blueberry vs orangutan

English

Etymology

blue +? berry

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?blu?b(?)?i/
• (US) enPR: blu'b?"r?, IPA^(key): /?blu.?b?.?i/

Noun

blueberry (countable and uncountable, plural blueberries)

1. (countable) An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
2. (countable) The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
3. (countable and uncountable) A dark blue colour.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

blueberry (comparative more blueberry, superlative most blueberry)

1. Of a dark blue colour.

Translations

Verb

blueberry (third-person singular simple present blueberries, present participle blueberrying, simple past and past participle blueberried)

1. To gather or forage for blueberries.
   • 1939, Kathrene Pinkerton, Wilderness Life, Carrick and Evans (1939), page 179:

     We blueberried on an open flat beside the river. The ground was covered with great frosted blue globules, sweet and warm in the sunshine.

   • 1947, Robert Wallcott & Albert Hale, "What People Talk About", Daily Boston Globe, 26 August 1947:

     The "white longlegged, long-necked bird" seen by your Ayer reader while she was blueberrying on the shore of a pond was either the Little Blue Heron in white phase or immature, […]

   • 1951, Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon (1951), page 62:

     They had not passed again in the surrey going to the Forks, nine miles away, and none of the girls had been blueberrying among the bushes at the edge of the woods.

   • 1988, Ms. Magazine, Volume 17, Issues 1-6, page 38:

     Sarah and I have been blueberrying together off and on since the summer of '64. This morning, armed with our pots and pans, we went out and picked two quarts of wild berries and then came home and made a cake.

   • 2000, Robert Dash, Notes from Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons, Houghton Mifflin Company (2000), ?ISBN, page 152:

     Pointy fraise de bois went through it all with undiminished generosity (so small a plant for all that giving!) and the picking was fine, for the birds were off blueberrying and taking the late raspberries just as they ripened.

   • 2000, Edward Hoagland, "A Peaceable Kingdom", in Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life, The Lyons Press (2000), ?ISBN, page 61:

     On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness.

   • 2002, Loretta Ellsworth, The Shrouding Woman, Henry Holt and Company (2002), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     "Come, Aunt Flo. I'll show you where we go blueberrying. Last year we got almost a bushel of berries, and Papa says they should be ripe now."

   • 2002, Lois Kenyon Pesanelli, His Hand Upon Me for Miracles, 1st Books Library (2002), ?ISBN, page 14:

     We decided to go blueberrying one day up in our hills. We grabbed our blueberry cans, hitched them to our belts, and headed for the blueberries.

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}
• bilberry
• ericaceous
• whortleberry

Further reading

• blueberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Blueberries on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• berry blue

English

Alternative forms

• orang utan, orang-utan, orang-utang, orangutang, orangoutan, orangoutang

Etymology

From Malay orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”); literally, "forest man". The name "orang utan (sic)" appears to have been bestowed by Europeans. The indigenous name given to the apes Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii by locals historically was mawas.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???æ?.?.tæn/, /???æ?.??tæ?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???æ?.??tæn/, /???æ?.??tæ?/

Noun

orangutan (plural orangutans)

1. An arboreal anthropoid ape genus Pongo consisting of two species, Pongo pygmaeus of Borneo and Pongo abelii of Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, long arms, and no tail.

Descendants

• ? Catalan: orangutan
• ? Czech: orangutan
• ? Faroese: orangutang (perhaps via another European language)
• ? French: orang-outan
  • ? Romanian: urangutan
• ? German: Orang-Utan
• ? Greek: ???????????? (ourakotágkos)
• ? Hungarian: orangután
• ? Italian: orangutan, orango
• ? Japanese: ??????? (oran'?tan)
• ? Polish: orangutan
• ? Russian: ????????? (orangutan)
  • ? Armenian: ?????????? (?rangutan)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: ???????????
  • Latin: orangùt?n
• ? Spanish: orangután
  • ? Galician: orangután
• ? Swedish: orangutang
• ? Thai: ?????????? (ù-rang-ù-dtang)
• ? Turkish: orangutan

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.???.?u?tan/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.???.?u?tan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.?a?.?u?tan/

Noun

orangutan m (plural orangutans)

1. orangutan

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ora??utan]

Noun

orangutan m anim

1. orangutan

Derived terms

• orangutaní

Further reading

• orangutan in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• orangutan in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Italian

Alternative forms

• orango, urango, orangotango, orangutango, orangotano, orangutano, rangutan, rangutano

Etymology

Borrowed from English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Noun

orangutan m (invariable)

1. orangutan

Polish

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.ran??u.tan/

Noun

orangutan m anim

1. orangutan

Declension

Further reading

• orangutan in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• orangutan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oran??ta?n/
• Hyphenation: o?ran?gu?tan

Noun

orangùt?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????????)

1. orangutan

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From English orangutan, from Malay orang utan.

Noun

orangutan

1. orangutan

Declension