dewberry

American  

[doo-ber-ee, -buh-ree, dyoo-] / ˈduˌbɛr i, -bə ri, ˈdju- /

noun

• dewberries
  plural

1. (in North America) the fruit of any of several trailing blackberries of the genus Rubus.

2. (in England) the fruit of a bramble, Rubus caesius.

3. a plant bearing either fruit.

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dewberry British  

/ ˈdjuːbərɪ, -brɪ /

noun

1. any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits

2. the fruit of any such plant

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dewberries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of dewberry

First recorded in 1570–80; dew + berry

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Example Sentences

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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

Company A was in an open ground covered with, dewberry vines, and the berries were ripe.

From Who Goes There? by Blackwood Ketcham Benson

A few of the brambles met with are the greenbrier, high blackberry, dewberry, or low blackberry, and raspberry.

From History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia by James William Head

“Here, I have everything. In the yard around the cabin there are dewberries and wild buckwheat.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019

Made a flank movement on a magnificent patch of dewberries and blackberries.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones

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 L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

In their season the native berries were very acceptable; the salmonberry ripening early in June; dewberries and red and black huckleberries were plentiful in July and August.

From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

I've made her postum cereal coffee and cooked her granum, and I went out and begged dewberries from the Bigelows—she used to be fond of them—and I don't know how many times I've made toast.

From Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play by Octave Thanet

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