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DEWBERRY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("dewberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

Holonyms ("dewberry" is a part of...):

American dewberry; Northern dewberry; Rubus flagellaris (of eastern North America)

European dewberry; Rubus caesius (creeping European bramble bearing dewberries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America

Synonyms:

dewberry; dewberry bush; running blackberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dewberry" is a kind of...):

blackberry; blackberry bush (bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle)

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

American dewberry; Rubus canadensis (North American dewberry)

American dewberry; Northern dewberry; Rubus flagellaris (of eastern North America)

Rubus trivialis; Southern dewberry (of southern North America)

Rubus hispidus; swamp blackberry; swamp dewberry (of eastern North America)

European dewberry; Rubus caesius (creeping European bramble bearing dewberries)

Holonyms ("dewberry" is a member of...):

genus Rubus; Rubus (large genus of brambles bearing berries)

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