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Definition of American dewberry
1. Noun. Of eastern North America.
Terms within: Dewberry
Generic synonyms: Dewberry, Dewberry Bush, Running Blackberry
2. Noun. North American dewberry.
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Dewberry
Literary usage of American dewberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Cultivated American dewberry. A variable group of American origin, from the native
species: trailing or prostrate plants, the weak slender canes lying on ..."
2. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"... Rubus canadensis, being the American dewberry; and the other— Rubus villosus,
the American Blackberry. General Characters and Composition. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Medical Terminology, Dental Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris (1855)
"The low blackberry ; called also American dewberry. This, according to some
botanists, is the Rubus canadensis. The root is the officinal part, ..."
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