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A bilberry is a small, dark blue-black fruit that grows wild on low bushes in Northern Europe — cool hills and woods. People also use the word for the bush itself. It looks like the you buy in a Taiwan supermarket, and you can cook it in pies or jam in the same way, but it is not the same plant. Bilberries are usually smaller, darker, and they grow wild; in shops are often farmed and fatter. You will meet the word in British English, in writing about the countryside, and on some jam labels. Though actually, many English speakers just say for both, which is handy but a little sloppy if you mean the wild European fruit.
歐洲越橘(野生;和超市藍莓不是同一種)
組成Probably from a North Germanic word (Danish bøllebær), from Old Norse bolli plus ber, “berry”.
同家族的字
- berrythe second piece: a small fruit
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bilberrynoun/ˈbɪlb(ə)ɹɪ/
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Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
- Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.
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The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。