🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

mûre

Pronunciation / Transliteration: myr

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Blackberry/ˈblækˌbɛri/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4520 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"La tarte aux mûres est un délice estival."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An edible aggregate fruit, typically dark purple or black, growing on wild or cultivated shrubs of the genus Rubus.

    "We spent the afternoon picking fresh blackberries along the country lane."
  2. 2

    The prickly shrub that bears blackberries.

    "A thick tangle of blackberry bushes blocked the path."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English bræmbil (blackberry bush) combined with berige (berry), tracing back to Proto-Germanic roots. Historically used to denote both the edible aggregate fruit and the thorny shrub producing it, before being adopted in the modern era to describe mobile communication devices.

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