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Blueberry vs. Blackcurrant

Blueberry and Blackcurrant Definitions

Blueberry

Any of various plants of the genus Vaccinium, having white to reddish, urn-shaped or tubular flowers and edible blue to blue-black berries, especially the highbush blueberry and the lowbush blueberry.

Blackcurrant

A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.

Blueberry

The fruit of any of these plants.

Blackcurrant

The berry borne by this shrub.

Blueberry

A usually blue-gray spherule that is found in soil and sedimentary rock and is rich in hematite, produced by the weathering of rock or by precipitation from rock by moving groundwater.

Blueberry

(countable) An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
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Blueberry

(countable) The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.

Blueberry

A dark blue colour.

Blueberry

Of a dark blue colour.

Blueberry

To gather or forage for blueberries.

Blueberry

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 Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

Blueberry

Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
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Blueberry

Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants

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