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
Of these small fruits the most popular and useful are: the strawberry, the blackberry, dewberry and raspberry, the currant, gooseberry and grape.
From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
The blackberry, dewberry and raspberry are all treated in much the same way.
From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)
“Here, I have everything. In the yard around the cabin there are dewberries and wild buckwheat.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
Rosa Wichuraiana and some of the dewberries are useful for covering rough places.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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
There are various other things that I want to put in,—quinces, apricots, and perhaps raspberries, dewberries, and other bush fruits.
From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by Waugh, F. A.
One of the best things for this purpose is the cultivation of cane fruits as blackberries, raspberries and dewberries.
From The Dollar Hen by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)
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