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
They dipped into a bare, red gully, scrambled up the opposite bank, and fought again with the dewberry vines.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
Boil in one quart of water one ounce of dewberry root.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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