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Dewberry

noun

Any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America. Synonyms: dewberry bush, running blackberry.

Blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes.

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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

Words linked to "Dewberry" : Rubus caesius, berry, blackberry, blackberry bush, Rubus trivialis, genus Rubus, Rubus canadensis, Rubus flagellaris, Rubus, Rubus hispidus, swamp blackberry