wineberry
Americannoun
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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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of wineberry
before 1000; Middle English winberie, Old English wīnberige grape. See wine, berry
Example Sentences
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The afternoon was hot, the little wineberry bushes were soft, and Jimmy lay in a big hemlock's shade.
From Northwest! by Bindloss, Harold
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 Bindloss, Harold
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 MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh
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