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blackberry

DEFINITIONS OF: blackberry

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n bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle

Synonyms:
blackberry bush
Types:
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Rubus fruticosus, true blackberry
the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries
Rubus cuneifolius, sand blackberry
stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida)
dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry
any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America
Rubus ursinus, western blackberry, western dewberry
American blackberry with oblong black fruit
boysenberry, boysenberry bush
cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries
Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus, loganberry
red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California
American dewberry, Rubus canadensis
North American dewberry
American dewberry, Northern dewberry, Rubus flagellaris
of eastern North America
Rubus trivialis, Southern dewberry
of southern North America
Rubus hispidus, swamp blackberry, swamp dewberry
of eastern North America
European dewberry, Rubus caesius
creeping European bramble bearing dewberries
Type of:
bramble bush
any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits

n large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus

Type of:
berry
any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
drupelet
a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe

v pick or gather blackberries

“The children went blackberrying”
Type of:
berry
pick or gather berries
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