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A blueberry is a small round fruit, dark blue-purple when ripe, often with a pale dusty bloom on the skin. It is sweet with a little sharpness. People eat them fresh, in muffins, , yoghurt, and jam. The same word is the bush the fruit grows on. The plant first grew in North America; the fruit is now sold in many countries, including Taiwan. It is an everyday food word, not a fancy one. Though actually, "blueberry" flavour in sweets is often louder and more purple than the real fruit, so the candy is a poor teacher of the taste. A blueberry is not just any berry that looks a bit blue.
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原始詞典資料10 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。
Blueberryname
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An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States.
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A surname.
blueberrynoun/ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/
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An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
- Meronym: anthocyanin
- Applesaucey Tricks Galore / Looks elaborate but isn’t: Take bakers sponge cake shells. In each one put a big spoonful of canned apple sauce, then a scoop of vanilla ice cream and top all with blueberry sauce, or with the fresh berries.
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The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
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A dark blue colour.
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informalgeographygeologynatural-sciencesA kind of small spherical hematite-rich mineral concretion found on Mars.
- On sol 46 (March 11, 2004 on Earth), Opportunity gathered data on a cluster of blueberries and confirmed the team's suspicions that this area of Mars once contained liquid water.
blueberryadj/ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/
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Of a dark blue colour.
- > > > > > > The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or > > > > > > Lime. […] > > > Periwinkle, now renamed blueberry. Second choice, orange peel. > > > It looks to my eye that "blueberry" is, uh, bluer than "periwinkle." […] On-site, Blueberry looked blueberrier than Periwinkle, but it does follow the Fruit Names theme more closely.
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rareResembling or characteristic of blueberries.
- Breyers finds the sweetest, sunniest blueberries. Gently presses their just-picked flavor into a smooth puree. Then mixes lavishly with Breyers famous Vanilla Ice Cream. The result—the tastiest blueberriest flavor ever!
- The blueberry muffin with the blueberriest flavor. / More blueberry flavor than any other mix. […] If you like more blueberry flavor in your muffins, this is the one.
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rareContaining blueberries.
- Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, blueberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.
- The idea of a bagel had whetted my appetite so I made my way to Amy’s place near the park. / “Tommy! Good to see you, honey! Fresh blueberry, today.” / “You always know what I want. That’s great! Thanks.” / “Where’s Gussy?” she asked as she picked though the assortment. “I’ll find you the largest, blueberriest, one of the lot.” / “Blueberriest?” came Gus’s amused voice from behind me.” / “I understood,” I said. / It seemed that both Amy’s dictionary and mine were significantly different from his.
blueberryverb/ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/
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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.
- 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, […]
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。