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 weevil not only injures the cultivated strawberry, but is found to attack the buds of the red raspberry, dewberry and wild strawberry.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by Latham, A. W.

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

“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)

It was made of dewberries, sweetened with honey.

From Bloom of Cactus by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

Besides these there were other small berries, maruskins, like the New England dewberries, huckleberries, and whortleberries.

From Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin by Nixon-Roulet, Mary F.

It comes to us from Fr. abricot, while the Shakespearean apricock— "Feed him with apricocks and dewberries."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest