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Bramble with edible purple fruit
Answer for the clue "Bramble with edible purple fruit ", 8 letters:
dewberry
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Word definitions for dewberry in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dewberry \Dew"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of certain species of bramble ( Rubus ); in England, the fruit of Rubus c[ae]sius , which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of Rubus canadensis and Rubus hispidus , species of low blackberries. The plant which ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Small brambles of the genus ''Rubus'' which have stems that trail along the ground. 2 # The European dewberry, ''Rubus caesius''. 3 # The American dewberry, species of (taxlink Rubus sect. Flagellares section noshow=1) 4 The purple to black berries ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dewberry may refer to one of the following:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America [syn: dewberry bush , running blackberry ] blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes
Usage examples of dewberry.
Sweet gum and persimmon and water locust, ironwood and redbud and a dozen other species with buttonbush and thorny dewberry and greenbriar skirting their bases.
In the grove he found a few bushes of dewberries, with some fruit still on them, so he had dessert as well as fish.
Down in the orchard Tarquin sat stuffing dewberry and sugared apple cake, strumming his harolina mournfully.