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Definition of Dewberry
1. Noun. Any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America.
Group relationships: Genus Rubus, Rubus
Generic synonyms: Blackberry, Blackberry Bush
Specialized synonyms: American Dewberry, Rubus Canadensis, American Dewberry, Northern Dewberry, Rubus Flagellaris, Rubus Trivialis, Southern Dewberry, Rubus Hispidus, Swamp Blackberry, Swamp Dewberry, European Dewberry, Rubus Caesius
2. Noun. Blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes.
Group relationships: American Dewberry, Northern Dewberry, Rubus Flagellaris, European Dewberry, Rubus Caesius
Definition of Dewberry
1. n. The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.
Definition of Dewberry
1. Noun. Small brambles of the genus ''Rubus'' which have stems that trail along the ground. ¹
2. Noun. The purple to black berries of these plants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dewberry
1. an edible berry [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Dewberry
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dewberry
Literary usage of Dewberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"Dessert and kitchen: Lucretia [dewberry]. RECOMMENDED—Dessert, kitchen and ...
Dessert and market: Brunton; Early Harvest; Mayes (Austin) I dewberry]. ..."
2. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1854)
"The dewberry is the first to ripen, and the best flavored fruit. ... It is not
like the dewberry, or long and mulberry-shaped like the ' Upright Blackberry ..."
3. Iowa Horticulture by Iowa State Horticultural Society (1908)
"The dewberry is comparatively a new fruit under cultivation and there are but
... The trailing habit of the dewberry canes renders them easy to cover where ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1906)
"Shushan, NY A NEW dewberry. BY WH BLANCHARD. THIS dewberry which approaches R.
hispidus, L. in many respects I ..."
5. The Practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles ... and a materia medica by John W. Comfort (1853)
"dewberry. (Rubus Procumbens.) " To the declining stages of dysentery, ... THE root
of the dewberry, and also that of the blackberry plant, may be used as a ..."
6. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"dewberry was thank- i»ve glowing shadows which folded . nom the ... dewberry started
and listened,bewildered and strangely frightened. ..."
7. Transactions of the American Horticultural Society by American Horticultural Society, Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society (1888)
"While there is hardly a stats which has not some variety of dewberry growing ...
The dewberry is of the blackberry family, and is often called a trailing ..."
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