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blackberry
| blackberry bush
| blackberry-like
| blackberry-lily
| blackbird
| blackbirder
blackberry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blackberry has 2 senses
- blackberry(n = noun.food) Array - large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus; Array is a kind of berry, drupelet
- blackberry(n = noun.plant) blackberry bush - bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle; Array is a kind of bramble bush
is a part of rubus fruticosus, true blackberry, rubus ursinus, western blackberry, western dewberry
Derived form verb blackberry1
has particulars: rubus fruticosus, true blackberry, rubus cuneifolius, sand blackberry, dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry, rubus ursinus, western blackberry, western dewberry
Verb blackberry has 1 sense
- blackberry(v = verb.contact) Array - pick or gather blackberries; "The children went blackberrying" is one way to berry
Derived form noun blackberry1
Sample sentence:
In the summer they like to go out and blackberry
CIDE DICTIONARY
blackberry, n. [OE. blakberye, AS. blæcberie; blæc black + berie berry.].
The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus ); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; Rubus villosus and Rubus Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blackberry, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a climbing thorny rosaceous shrub, Rubus fruticosus, bearing white or pink flowers. Also called BRAMBLE.
2 a black fleshy edible fruit of this plant.
--v.intr. (-ies, -ied) gather blackberries.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a climbing thorny rosaceous shrub, Rubus fruticosus, bearing white or pink flowers. Also called BRAMBLE.
2 a black fleshy edible fruit of this plant.
--v.intr. (-ies, -ied) gather blackberries.
ROGET THESAURUS
blackberry
Food
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