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dewberry
noun
uk /ˈdjuː.bər.i/ us /ˈduːˌber.i/
[ C or U ]
a wild bush with thorns(= small, sharp, points), that produces small fruits that look like blackberries(= small dark purple fruits):
The dewberry is a smaller plant than the blackberry, but its white flowers are larger, while the leaves are not so prickly.
Both dewberry and blackberry plants possess astringent medicinal properties.
[ C ]
the fruit of the dewberry bush :
We would gather raspberries and sometimes too we found dewberries, and black and red currants.
A boysenberry is a cross between a loganberry and a dewberry.
Blackberry, raspberry, and dewberry all have prickly stems that grow upward, arching back toward the ground.
The fruit 0f a dewberry is like a blackberry, but is dark blue, and its juice is bright red.
The value of dewberries for commercial purposes lies in the fact that their fruiting season is earlier than the blackberries.
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