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dewberry
[ doo-ber-ee, -buh-ree, dyoo- ]
noun
- (in North America) the fruit of any of several trailing blackberries of the genus Rubus.
- (in England) the fruit of a bramble, Rubus caesius.
- a plant bearing either fruit.
dewberry
/ ˈdjuːbərɪ; -brɪ /
noun
- any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits
- the fruit of any such plant
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The Dewberry (Rubus cæsius) is a handsome fruit, very like the Blackberry, but coming earlier.
The woodchuck spilled himself from under me, slid short about, and tumbled off for home by way of the dewberry-patch.
Company A was in an open ground covered with, dewberry vines, and the berries were ripe.
Soon the trees fell away, and he came to a stretch of bank,—here naked earth, there clad in grass and dewberry vines.
Harky halted and stood motionless as any boulder on Dewberry Knob.
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