DEWBERRY

dewberry

(noun) blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes

dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry

(noun) any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Dewberry

A surname.

A village in Alberta, Canada.

Etymology

Noun

dewberry (plural dewberries)

Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.

The European dewberry, Rubus caesius.

The American dewberries, species of Rubus sect. Flagellares

The purple to black berries of these plants.

Source: Wiktionary


Dew"ber`ry, n. (Bot.) (a) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries. (b) The plant which bears the fruit. Feed him with apricots and dewberries. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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