blueberry
- Noun. An edible round berry belonging to the ''cowberry'' family. (A botanically false berry.) It has flared "crowns" at the end that turn blue on ripening.
- Noun. The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
- Noun. A dark blue colour.
- Noun. (geology) A mineral formation first identified by the Mars Exploration Rover ''Opportunity'' in 2004, so-named because of its resemblance to blueberry muffins. ''We see these strange round objects we're calling “spherules” embedded in the outcrop, like blueberries in a muffin.''.
- Adjective. Of a dark blue colour.
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