dewberry
- noun
- /ˈduːˌbɛri/
- US
:
mora
- Her favorite dessert was a pie made with fresh dewberries she picked during her walks in the countryside.
- swamp dewberry
Examples
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Billows of dust flew up behind the truck like a woman's face powder, settling on roadside dewberry bushes that resembled thickened fountains of lava.
Fiction book (1991) -
During the summer, we often picked dewberries from the bushes that lined the trail behind our house.
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Blackberries, a type of bramble or caneberry, do well in Texas because they are improved varieties from wild dewberries that grow along roadsides in more southern areas of the state.
Blog text (9) -
At the farmer's market, I discovered several stalls selling fresh dewberries along with other berries.
Synonyms
A low wild bush that makes sweet dark purple or black berries like blackberries
A low bush that grows along the ground and makes small dark berries like blackberries
Compounds
A low bush that grows along the ground and makes small dark berries like blackberries
A low wild bush that makes sweet dark purple or black berries like blackberries
A low wild bush that grows along the ground and produces small dark blue berries you can eat
- Specialized
A bristly trailing plant with small black berries like a blackberry that grows in wet places
- Specialized
A wild blackberry bush with long black fruit that grows in western North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dewberry comes from the simple words dew ('morning drops of water') and berry ('small fruit'), so the plant is named for the small fruits that grow low where dew often sits on the leaves and ground.
