blackberry

blackberry

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  1. karhunvatukka

Liittyvät sanat: bramble

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blackberry

  1. marja, karhunvatukka, vatukkapensas, karhunvatukkapensas, pieni luumarja.

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englanti

poimia karhunvatukoita, kerätä karhunvatukoita

karhunvatukka A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
puhekieltä The blackcurrant.
To gather or forage for blackberryNoun blackberries.
Arthur Bryson Gerrard, Butterflies & coalsmoke (page 62)

Thereafter we blackberried unceasingly and returned with a large basketful, together with some maggoty windfall apples found neglected in the wet grass on the edge of an orchard and Mrs Clare duly stewed these for us.
1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway:
She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068, http://books.google.com/books?id=Gzw-l_wu8poC&pg=PA111 page 111:
My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337, http://books.google.com/books?id=oYhPIaLp8BIC&q=%22were+blackberrying%22 page 72:
My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
2004, Janet Bord, The Travellers Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland'', Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648, http://books.google.com/books?id=iZ3fAAAAMAAJ&q=%22blackberrying%22 page 48:
Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

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