dewberry
Americannoun
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dewberries
plural
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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
While the youngest slept under giant ferns or drooping cedar, she filled brimming pails with the luscious fruit, salmonberry, dewberry or huckleberry in their seasons.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny
We chose Mag's favorite spot—under a dewberry bush.
From Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by John Goss
“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
A sun-tanned face and brown bare knees, And a hand stained red with dewberries.
From The Garden of Dreams by Madison J. Cawein
Here was a little hill, covered with dewberries, and having cleared a spot, they erected their tent and built a campfire.
From Young Hunters of the Lake by Ralph Bonehill
Blackberries, like dewberries and raspberries, bear but one crop on the cane.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
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