(n.) The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
(2) Blueberry barrens stretch over several acres in Wesley, Maine.
(3) However, Innocent was one of the brands highlighted last year as containing high levels of sugar: a 250ml serving of its pomegranate, blueberry and acai smoothie contains 34g of sugar, around the same as a 330ml can of Coke.
(4) From blueberries to beetroot, there seems no end to the foods which are rich in antioxidants.
(5) Spoon into four dishes and pour over the blueberry sauce.
(6) I lost my heart to Kate Hackworthy's striking pink blueberry numbers though; please don't be put off by the idea of beetroot for breakfast – the flavour melts into the background, which is more than you can say for the colour.
(7) In 2013, the supermarket also increased the price of Waitrose blueberries to £3.99 for a week, before selling them on offer at £2.66 for more than a month.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vladimir Putin sings Blueberry Hill
(9) In our private plan, [A] blueberry spots, blood blebs, [B] chocolate cyst, [C] periadnexal adhesions ([C']: only less involved side was evaluated) and [D] Closing change in cul-de-sac, were designated targets of evaluation and each was divided into 4 grades.
(10) Beetroot blueberry pancakes These bright pink pancakes liven up the breakfast table and are a great way to get some veg in the morning.
(11) A new strain of wound tumor virus (WTV) has been isolated from a periwinkle plant (Catharanthus roseus) that was among several used as bait plants in a blueberry field.
(12) If blueberry plants are given as an ad libitum supplement to this diet, the malady is prevented.
(13) Theme tune: On Blueberry Hill, performed by Putin .
(14) But I do remember one of the first things that had an effect on me as a child: hearing Fats Domino do Blueberry Hill.
(15) And when talking about Norah Jones (Portman and the multimillion-selling jazz-ish singer both star in Wong Kar Wai's upcoming My Blueberry Nights and are now best friends): 'Norah is a sweetheart.
(16) A full-term male infant was born with skin findings suggesting a blueberry muffin appearance.
(17) Mascarpone rice with blueberries: Nigel Slater The mention of blueberries in May won't please the more xenophobic cook, but our own season is absurdly short, and they are one of the fruits from which I will not be parted.
(18) The myricetin level in ripe fruits of cultivated blueberries and the quercetin level in ripe berries of privet was higher than in unripe.
(19) Black, red, and white currants, gooseberries and cultivated blueberries contained only small amounts of catechins (total up to 30 mg per kg).
(20) Plush sofas, theatrical curtains and funky lighting from competing chandeliers give the place an aesthetic that serves as the perfect setting for fusion martinis such as Rozameltini (pisco, kaffir lime and fresh blueberry juice, £8) or Mirotini (Grand Marnier, pisco, passion fruit and raspberry juice, £4.80).
Huckleberry
Definition:
(n.) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.
(n.) The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
(2) After going solo, Hope landed the role of Huckleberry Haines in Jerome Kern's Roberta - the part played by Fred Astaire in the film version.
(3) On the "winter harvest-themed menu" at the White House: First course Brussels sprouts, applewood smoked bacon Second course Spring garden lettuces, shallot dressing, shaved breakfast radish, cucumbers and avocados Main course Bison wellington, a red wine reduction, French beans, cipollini onions Dessert Warm meyer lemon steamed pudding with Idaho huckleberry sauce and newtown pippin apples American wines
(4) "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn … It's the best book we've had.
(5) JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield is to the 20th century what Huckleberry Finn is to the 19th: the unforgettably haunting voice of the adolescent at odds with a troubling world.
(6) Like Huckleberry Finn , it was censored, denounced, idolised and mythologised.
(7) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was eventually published by Chatto & Windus on 10 December 1884 in Canada and the United Kingdom, and then on 18 February 1885 in the United States by Charles L Webster and Co. (The American edition was delayed thanks to a last-minute change to an illustration plate.)
(8) Twain famously announces at the start of Huckleberry Finn that "persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
(9) In huckleberry season, wolves would alert Indians to the presence of game.
(10) As readers have noted since its publication, the plot of Huckleberry Finn , for example, deteriorates markedly at the end; Ernest Hemingway dismissed the story's resolution as a "cheat".
(11) Finally, a specific strategy using Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is offered as an example of how this might be done.
(12) My friend, the critic Adam Gopnik, says it is one of the “three perfect books” in American literature (the others are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby , Nos 23 and 51 in this series).
(13) He designed his own board game, as well as "Mark Twain's Patent Self-Pasting Scrapbook", which sounds like something the Duke and Dauphin in Huckleberry Finn might sell.
(14) Fielding takes a photo of him on his own mobile: 'Huckleberry Finn'.
(15) The opening line of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is pure ear, pure voice, utter authorial confidence.
(16) He admits that Tom Sawyer was largely a young Sam Clemens, while Huck Finn was based on a real boy: "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.
(17) Instead of being the head of American engineers, he is captain of a huckleberry party."
(18) There’s an extensive food menu, but come for the cocktails (try the Portland city streetcar, $12, or the Huckleberry, $10) plus prolonged happy hours (Mon-Sat from 4pm-7pm and from 9pm to closing, Sunday noon to 11pm, drinks from $4.75).
(19) chris sparks (@chrisztweetz) @GuardianTeach Huckleberry Finn, In Cold Blood, Snowpiercer, The Grapes of Wrath, No Country for Old Men June 9, 2015 Follow us on Twitter via @GuardianTeach .
(20) A note on the text The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn began as a manuscript originally entitled Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography .