dewberry
noun
(in North America) the fruit of any of several trailing blackberries of the genus Rubus.
dewberries
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pluralof dewberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Here, I have everything. In the yard around the cabin there are dewberries and wild buckwheat.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
Then they picked blackberries and dewberries by the edge of the wood and walked on beneath the trees without caring about trespassing or tramps or anything else.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
Changed "magnificient" to "magnificent" on page 353: "magnificent patch of dewberries."
From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones
Having dressed again, he ate the last of his ration of corn and meat, which was supplemented by a few late dewberries which he found growing on the bluff.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt
She instructed her attendant fairies to be kind and courteous to the gentleman, and to feed him with apricots, dewberries, purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.
From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James Grant
