The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bilberry \Bil"ber*ry\, n.; pl. Bilberries. [Cf. Dan. b["o]lleb[ae]r bilberry, where b["o]lle is perh. akin to E. ball.]
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(Bot.) The European whortleberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
--Shak. (Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, Vaccinium c[ae]spitosum and Vaccinium uliginosum.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bilberry English)
Usage examples of "bilberries".
She also brought over little wooden bowls, one full of honey, the other of a thick mess of stewed fruit: bilberries, raspberries and blackberries, gathered from the moors.
The clear, clean air sharpened every detail: the opposite slopes of the valley bright with bronze bracken, purple heather and dark bilberries.
By night, what with the rocks and the tussocks, the harsh tangle of bilberries and heather underfoot, and the river to cross, it would take much longer.
One of hers was unlaced and slipped about on her foot in an irritating way that she suspected would soon give her blisters, but the other men were all barefoot, and she could hear them groaning and hissing in the darkness as their toes and ankles were bashed on rocks, as the harsh, strong growth of bilberries scratched them, as the tough bracken stems cut like razors.
The children wandered over the island and looked for bilberries, which were fruiting there in great numbers.
It was a way of quenching their thirst, to pick the small, juicy bilberries.
There are lots of bilberries there we could pick--they are lovely and sweet now.
Blueberries and bilberries spread out as thick car pets, only four inches high.
Can you--' she sniffed, and sniffed at the bottle--'can you smell bilberries?
I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread.
I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath.