wineberry
Americannoun
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wineberries
plural
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a prickly shrub, Rubus phoenicolasius, of China and Japan, having pinkish or white flowers and small, red, edible fruit.
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the fruit of this plant.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of wineberry
before 1000; Middle English winberie, Old English wīnberige grape. See wine, berry
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My little dark love is a wineberry, As swarth and as sweet, I hold; But as the dew on the wineberry Her heart is a-cold.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
The afternoon was hot, the little wineberry bushes were soft, and Jimmy lay in a big hemlock's shade.
From Northwest! by Harold Bindloss
In places their flanks were brushed by tall, black-stemmed fern, and where the forest was more open treacherous gravel slipped beneath the hoofs that sank from sight amidst the blood-red clusters of the little wineberry.
From Alton of Somasco by Harold Bindloss
Now, by my front door, wineberries form a thicket behind a hobbled apple tree.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
Since his arrival, he has introduced diners to wineberries, which he turns into vinegars, and cardoons, which he recently featured in a succotash.
From Washington Post
The brake was in black shadow, but a broad patch of moonlight fell on the green carpet of wineberries a yard or two away.
From The Gold Trail by Harold Bindloss
Where the bush was thinnest, Clay could see the tiny wineberries glimmer red in the rushing beam of light, but all above was wrapped in impenetrable gloom.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
It was a hot summer evening, and a drowsy, resinous fragrance stole out of the shadowy bush when Nasmyth, who had now spent six months at Waynefleet’s ranch, lay among the wineberries by the river-side.
From The Greater Power by W. Herbert Dunton
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