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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#m1)

2) The bush it grows on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#x1)
- We baked blueberry muffins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#x2)
- Share 24 blueberries between 3 children: 8 each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#x3)
- Blueberries grow on small bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#x4)
- The bear ate blueberries in the woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#x5)
- Blueberries turned her tongue blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/17-indicators-the-red-cabbage-rainbow/4/)
- [Squash a blueberry on your T-shirt and the purple mark refuses to wash out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/0/)
- [Blueberries hold the same kind of colour substance as red cabbage, so too much baking soda in the batter turns them greenish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/36-olympiad-kitchen-chemistry-puzzles/6/)
- [une fraise is a strawberry, une framboise is a raspberry and une myrtille is a blueberry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/18-food-and-drink/13/)
- ["Superfood" is a selling word, not a science word; blueberries are healthy, but no single food cures diseases.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/30-how-would-we-know-asking-experts-and-spotting-tricks/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blueberry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blueberry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.