blueberry

Etymology

blue + berry

noun

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.
   blueberry:

adj

1. Of a dark blue colour.

verb

1. To gather or forage for blueberries.
   We blueberried on an open flat beside the river. The ground was covered with great frosted blue globules, sweet and warm in the sunshine. 1939, Kathrene Pinkerton, Wilderness Life, Carrick and Evans (1939), page 179
   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, […] 26 August 1947, Robert Wallcott, Albert Hale, “What People Talk About”, in Daily Boston Globe
   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. 1951, Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon, published 1951, page 62
   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. 1988, Ms. Magazine, volume 17, numbers 1-6, page 38
   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, Robert Dash, Notes from Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 2000, page 152
   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. 2000, Edward Hoagland, “A Peaceable Kingdom”, in Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life, The Lyons Press, page 61
   "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, Loretta Ellsworth, The Shrouding Woman, Henry Holt and Company, published 2002
   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. 2002, Lois Kenyon Pesanelli, His Hand Upon Me for Miracles, 1st Books Library (2002), page 14