Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The grape.
  • noun The red or black currant, or the gooseberry.
  • noun A Japanese species of raspberry recently introduced into the United States.
  • noun The whortleberry. See winberry.
  • noun Same as toot-plant.
  • noun In Australia, a small tree of the saxifrage family, Polyosma Cunninghamii, bearing small, ovoid, one-seeded fruits.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The red currant.
  • noun The bilberry.
  • noun A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, also called Japanese wineberry.
  • noun Its edible fruit, resembling a raspberry.
  • noun The tree Aristotelia serrata, endemic to New Zealand, with broad rose-coloured leaves.
  • noun Its edible fruit, a small black berry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits
  • noun graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine

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Examples

  • I see strawberry lemonade smoothies by the kiddie pool, bacon and lettuce sandwiches on homemade rye bread, and wineberry crisp made from our backyard berries.

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  • I see strawberry lemonade smoothies by the kiddie pool, bacon and lettuce sandwiches on homemade rye bread, and wineberry crisp made from our backyard berries.

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  • Last time I tried that, I ended up with little wineberry-flavored jar-shaped rocks.

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  • Last time I tried that, I ended up with little wineberry-flavored jar-shaped rocks.

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  • We stopped once to watch a big fat rockchuck grubbing around a bunch of wineberry bushes.

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  • Rata and kamahi are also dominant on the steep, slip-prone mountain sides along with a variety of common small trees and shrubs like wineberry (Aristotelia serrata) and mahoe (Melicytus ramifloris).

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  • Machiavelli, Jr. I was beginning to wish that the pseudonymous Machiavelli, Jr. had never been born, or, at least, had stayed on Theta Virgo IV and been a wineberry planter as his father had wanted him to be.

    Lone Star Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

  • About the only thing Ray likes more than Indians are Sophie, Panda and High Pockets -- his three Jack Russells, or his '65 Ford Ranchero (yellow with red pearl and candy-apple wineberry trim) or his barbershop full of western antiques.

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  • About the only thing Ray likes more than Indians are Sophie, Panda and High Pockets -- his three Jack Russells, or his '65 Ford Ranchero (yellow with red pearl and candy-apple wineberry trim) or his barbershop full of western antiques.

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  • former word used for grape

    December 9, 2009