Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several trailing forms of the blackberry, such as Rubus hispidus of North America and R. caesius of Europe.
- n. The fruit of any of these plants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In England, the popular name of the Rubus cæsius, a bramble which grows in woods, thickets, hedges, and the borders of fields; the fruit of this plant. The fruit is black, with a bluish dewy bloom, and of an agreeable acid taste.
- n. In the United States, the popular name of Rubus Canadensis, the low blackberry, a trailing plant which has a large sweet fruit; the fruit of this plant.
Wiktionary
- n. Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
- n. The purple to black berries of these plants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of Rubus cæsius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of Rubus canadensis and Rubus hispidus, species of low blackberries.
- n. The plant which bears the fruit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes
- n. any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America
Examples
“I wonder if a dewberry is like a mulberry, as mulberry are somewhat similar to blackberries but they are sweeter and more pinkish than black or purple.”
“The dewberry is a sister to the lotus, and an innocent sister.”
“I just bought a pair (gray and "dewberry") for my mom and future mother-in-law and I know they are going to love them too!”
“dewberry," as our Southern neighbors call it, in prettier and more”
“This looks wonderful and now you've got me curious for the dewberry!”
“Once I had heard that the dewberry grew on more of a vine and a blackberry grew on more of a bush or vice versa.”
“I am also from a Houston suburb (The Woodlands) and I can totally remember the excitement of finding a huge dewberry patch while riding my bike to my friend's house.”
“Your post was a trip down memory lane though and I sure am inclined to try a dewberry cobbler!”
“I know you can probably find them elsewhere, but I just can't think of them as the dewberry of my youth unless they come from Texas ... sigh.”
“Pink of Perfection said ... this makes me think of the dewberry oil perfume from the body shop i was in love with all through middle school. i didn't even know it was a real fruit!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dewberry’.
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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Nice colloquialisms / my idiolect
hack rag, duck, irrelephant, golly, cripes, struth, breastful, i like cheese, lostwithiel, shiny, spiffer, spifftastic and 17 more...
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Max
Max Beerbohm: specifically The Happy Hypocrite, 'a fairy tale for tired men', 1897; then Seven Men, 1919, expanded 1950
inobnoxious, homuncule, box-mate, operette, irremeable, mask-maker, initiative, ladies'-feet, honeycup, derry-dock, dewberry, mensiversary and 8 more...
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Names and kinds of fruit
A list made in honor of my son, who likes to eat it. A lot. Today he's had blueberries, apples, bananas, and watermelon, and that was just in his first two hours awake. Limited to fruit I could thi...
apple, banana, watermelon, orange, grape, blueberry, papaya, mango, nectarine, peach, grapefruit, pomelo and 56 more...
Tweets
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corylusavellana Also as thingummy. Dec 30, 2008
qroqqa Bread and honey and little strawberries were their morning fare, and in the evening they had seed-cake and dewberry wine.
—Max Beerbohm, The Happy Hypocrite, 1897
Dec 30, 2008