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BLACKBERRY BUSH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle

Synonyms:

blackberry; blackberry bush

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blackberry bush" is a kind of...):

bramble bush (any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackberry bush"):

Rubus fruticosus; true blackberry (the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries)

Rubus cuneifolius; sand blackberry (stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida))

dewberry; dewberry bush; running blackberry (any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America)

Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry (American blackberry with oblong black fruit)

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