dewberry

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any one of several species of Rubus having a raspberry-like fruit.

Quotations

1796

I gathered a great many plants [including] dewberries; wild turnip, which cures a cough--it is like aram.

1823

Shrubs . . . Dew-berry [Rubus Saxatilis]. . . .

1960

They came home one day for lunch with dewberries they had picked in the cool still woods. . . .