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noun

Bilberry n. (pl. bilberries)

(Bot.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. "There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry."

(Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, Vaccinium caespitosum and Vaccinium uliginosum.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bilberry" Quotes from Famous Books

... world or the next; a great quiet envelops him. His violence was not strong enough to reach that final peace and mar its completeness. [His] grave is next to Catharine's, and near to Edgar Linton's; over them all the wild bilberry springs, and the peat-moss and heather. They do not reck of the passion, the capricious sweetness, the steady goodness that lie underneath. It is all one to them and ...

— Emily Bront • A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

... in a great measure due to his energy and foresight. Upon the acquisition of Broadlane Hall, he at once took in hand the re-planting of the demesne, {12} first in Broadlane and about the Old Castle, and in 1747 on the Bilberry Hill. He also turned his attention to the developement of the minerals on the estate, and attempted the carriage of coals to Chester by water. He died ...

— The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book - Revised Edition, 1890 • William Henry Gladstone

... and sentiments." In another letter, written after she had lost both her sisters, she says, "Emily had a particular love for the moors; and there is not a knoll of heather, not a branch of fern, not a young bilberry leaf, not a fluttering lark or linnet, but reminds me of her. The distant prospects were Anne's delight; and, when I look round, she is in the blue tints, the pale mists, the waves and shadows of the horizon." ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... behind, and the pathway led ever upwards, first through a tangle of heather and bilberry and gorse; then, higher still, over short, fine, slippery tracts of grass. They were reaching the upper region of the fell, where the hard rock cropped out into great splintered crags, weathered by countless ...

— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil