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Definition of Running blackberry
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Running Blackberry
Literary usage of Running blackberry
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)
"The southern dewberry or running blackberry. peduncles: fr. usually oblong ...
This is the common wild dewberry or running blackberry of the southern states ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"It is also known as the running blackberry. There are several species of Kubus
which have a decumbent habit, but the above is the only one which has given a ..."
3. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"Our principal Dewberries are two in number: Low running blackberry and ...
LOW running blackberry Rubus villosus. Rubus Canadensis Rose Family Fruit. ..."
4. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1861)
"The running blackberry is a most delicious fruit. ... I have this year seen on
Long Island this running blackberry, growing in a cornfield, where the vines ..."
5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Low running blackberry, Dewberry (of eastern US), Creeping Blackberry. See (p).
The Dewberry'of the southern US is (c) R. ..."
6. On the Trail; an Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard, Adelia Belle Beard (1915)
"The low running blackberry belongs to the dewberry type and bears the largest
and juiciest berries. It is a trailing vine with compound leaves of from four ..."
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