dewberry
Americannoun
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(in North America) the fruit of any of several trailing blackberries of the genus Rubus.
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(in England) the fruit of a bramble, Rubus caesius.
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a plant bearing either fruit.
noun
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any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits
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the fruit of any such plant
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After half a century, the prison was abandoned and the land — apart from a police shooting range — was reclaimed by pines and privet, dewberry and muscadine vines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Her father, a steelworker who never met a vegetable he didn’t want to grow, saw early on that she had a knack for finding the last ripe dewberry on a bush.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
Captain Flume gasped and dissolved right back into the patch of dewberry bushes, and Major Major never set eyes on him again.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The dewberry was as eagerly gathered—its large, purple fruit passing with them for blackberries.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
The three Hatfield men had crawfished back into a dense dewberry patch, while the three in the shop had crawled into the loft and hidden among the miscellaneous rubbish.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
“Here, I have everything. In the yard around the cabin there are dewberries and wild buckwheat.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
Yes, sir; we had berries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, dewberries, cherries, all of them growing wild although some of them started tame.
From The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
The shoots of raspberries sent up one season fruit and die the following year, as in blackberries and dewberries.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
I hoes a little cotton, picks plums and blackberries but dewberries 'bout played out.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
Besides these there were other small berries, maruskins, like the New England dewberries, huckleberries, and whortleberries.
From Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin by Nixon-Roulet, Mary F.
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