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dewberry
[ doo-ber-ee, -buh-ree, dyoo- ]
noun
plural dewberries.
- (in North America) the fruit of any of several trailing blackberries of the genus Rubus.
- (in England) the fruit of a bramble, Rubus caesius.
- a plant bearing either fruit.
dewberry
/ -brɪ; ˈdjuːbərɪ /
noun
- any trailing bramble, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe and NW Asia, having blue-black fruits
- the fruit of any such plant
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After half a century, the prison was abandoned and the land — apart from a police shooting range — was reclaimed by pines and privet, dewberry and muscadine vines.
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Her father, a steelworker who never met a vegetable he didn’t want to grow, saw early on that she had a knack for finding the last ripe dewberry on a bush.
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“Here, I have everything. In the yard around the cabin there are dewberries and wild buckwheat.”
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Delineate between the thimbleberry and the European dewberry.
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Captain Flume gasped and dissolved right back into the patch of dewberry bushes, and Major Major never set eyes on him again.
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