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Dewberry   /dˈubˌɛri/   Listen
noun
Dewberry  n.  (Bot.)
(a)
The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of Rubus caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of Rubus canadensis and Rubus hispidus, species of low blackberries.
(b)
The plant which bears the fruit. "Feed him with apricots and dewberries."






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"Dewberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... soon far up above the valley, and almost every step revealed to them some delightful prize. The clusters of the mountain-bramble, resembling mulberries, and known only to the inhabitants of the hills, were abundant, and were rapidly devoured. The dewberry was as eagerly gathered—its large, purple fruit passing with them for blackberries. In their hands were soon seen posies of the lovely grass of Parnassus, the mountain cistus, and ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various



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