dewberry bush
- noun
- US
:
mora de los pantanos
- Birds love to eat the ripe fruit from the dewberry bush in our backyard.
Examples
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We found a dewberry bush growing at the edge of the forest trail.
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Every spring, the dewberry bush near our fence bursts into white blossoms.
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The dewberry bush is thriving in my garden.
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I found a dewberry bush near the river.
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The delicious berries from the dewberry bush made our dessert taste amazing.
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In late summer, we picked ripe dewberries from the dewberry bush in the garden.
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We spotted a dewberry bush along the hiking trail, filled with ripe, juicy berries.
Synonyms
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A rough, thorny bush that often has berries like blackberries or raspberries
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A wild prickly bush with blackberries you can eat
A low bush with thorns that makes dark edible berries
A low wild bush that makes sweet dark purple or black berries like blackberries
A low bush that makes small edible dark berries and has stems that trail on the ground
A low wild plant that makes small black edible berries like blackberries
A wild low bush that grows along the ground and produces edible blackberries
A low-growing bush that makes small edible berries like blackberries
A wild berry plant like a blackberry that grows in southern North America
A low bush from eastern North America that makes small dark berries
A bristly trailing plant with small black berries like a blackberry that grows in wet places
A low wild bush that grows along the ground and produces small dark blue berries you can eat
A low bushy plant from Europe that makes blue-black berries
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bush that bears dewberries' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dewberry' (a trailing bramble producing edible berries) with 'bush' (a small woody plant). This simple noun–noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Dewberry bush likely comes from a simple picture: a low, trailing bush that bears small dark berries often covered in morning dew. Because people named the plant from those wet little fruits—dew + berry—dewberry bush now means a low bramble that makes berries like a small 'blackberry'.