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  

/ -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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dewberries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dewberry

First recorded in 1570–80; dew + berry

Example Sentences

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dewberry dewberries

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 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

"Nothing in the pie-line can hold a candle to the dewberry unless it's the cherry," he chuckled.

From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019

She instructed her attendant fairies to be kind and courteous to the gentleman, and to feed him with apricots, dewberries, purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

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 Thanet, Octave

I never saw so many dewberries or any so good.

From Who Goes There? by Benson, Blackwood Ketcham

Sparrows and red-birds flitted through the bushes, and dewberries grew ripe beneath.

From Old Creole Days by Cable, George Washington