sand blackberry
- noun
- US
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- She planted a sand blackberry bush along the edge of her garden.
Examples
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The sand blackberry grows abundantly in the sandy soils of the southeastern United States.
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Wildlife often feed on the fruit of the sand blackberry during the summer.
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The sand blackberry thrives in sandy soils.
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Many gardeners love to grow sand blackberries in their backyards.
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The sand blackberry grows abundantly in the sandy soils of the southeastern United States.
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Many gardeners love to grow sand blackberries in their backyards.
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Wildlife often feed on the fruit of the sand blackberry during the summer.
Synonyms
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1.0
A bush with sharp stems that grows small sweet black fruits
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1.3
A bush with thorny stems that makes sweet dark berries you can eat
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5.7
A wild prickly bush with blackberries you can eat
A type of blackberry bush that grows in the eastern United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a transparent noun–noun compound where 'sand' modifies 'blackberry' to indicate the plant's association with sandy soils; the definition 'a blackberry that thrives in sandy soils' is directly inferable from the constituents. Such modifier+head compounding is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows 'sand' and 'blackberry' would readily understand the meaning.
Etymology
The noun sand blackberry comes from the plant's habit of growing in sandy soil. The name joins sand and blackberry to give a clear picture: it is a kind of blackberry that lives in sandy places.