black-berriedadj.
/ˈblakb(ə)rɪd/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbɛrid/ Bearing black berries. Esp. in black-berried heath n. now rare the crowberry, Empetrum nigrum, which has edible dark purple berries.
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saffron-fruited1558
black-berried1676
xanthocarpous1862
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Sumach, a rank *black-berry'd plant used by Diers.
1690 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. 227 Black-berried Heath, Crow-berries or Crake-berries.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. II. 607 Black-berried Heath, Crow-berries, Crake-berries. On boggy heaths and mountains.
1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 469 Empetrum nigrum. Black-berried Heath... The berries are ripe in August and September, and are eaten by grouse.
1824 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds X. 149 Its food various—chiefly the young and smaller fish..and will sometimes eat the berries of the black-berried heath in defect of other food.
1867 Colonial Monthly Dec. 245 The tall brake and the graceful crown-fern, and the black-berried pepper-tree with crimson stems, grow in the cool shade of those massive-foliaged lightwoods.
1903 H. L. Keeler Our Northern Shrubs 490 Among its many local names are Crakeberry, Crow-pea, Black-berried Heath, Wire Ling, and the Canadians call the berries Camerines.
1969 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 22 Oct. 11/3 Billows of yellowing grape bines loaded with dark juicy fruit sprawled over everything, black-berried elder, dogwoods and viburnums.
2006 Flora Internat. Sept.–Oct. 24/2 She pointed out the scarlet Rosa moyesii berries..and a piece of blackberried shrubby Hypericum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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