dewberry

American  

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

noun

plural

dewberries

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  

/ -brɪ, ˈdjuːbərɪ /

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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Etymology

Origin of dewberry

First recorded in 1570–80; dew + berry

Example Sentences

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

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 Head, James William

The latter is a cross between the Californian dewberry and the Siberian raspberry and is certainly to be regarded as a good stable species, artificially produced.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de