blueberry

«blueberry» in Mova's school dictionary: sweet and good to eat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a blueberry, blueberries)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small, round, dark blue berry that is sweet and good to eat. tree →

2) The bush it grows on. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday food: blueberry muffins, pancakes, smoothies. In science: fruit has seeds; blueberries are a healthy snack. In maths: counting or sharing blueberries. Phrases: blueberry muffin, a handful of blueberries.

examples

• I put blueberries on my pancakes. tree →
• We baked blueberry muffins. tree →
• Share 24 blueberries between 3 children: 8 each. tree →
• Blueberries grow on small bushes. tree →
• The bear ate blueberries in the woods. tree →
• Blueberries turned her tongue blue. tree →

note

Plural: blueberries (y to ies). Similar berries: bilberry (UK wild cousin), huckleberry (US). Not the same as blackberry or blackcurrant.

In the corpora

• Blueberries hold the same kind of colour, which is why blueberry pancakes with too much baking soda get green streaks.
• Squash a blueberry on your T-shirt and the purple mark refuses to wash out.
• Blueberries hold the same kind of colour substance as red cabbage, so too much baking soda in the batter turns them greenish.
• une fraise is a strawberry, une framboise is a raspberry and une myrtille is a blueberry.
• "Superfood" is a selling word, not a science word; blueberries are healthy, but no single food cures diseases.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «blueberry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.