different between dewberry vs blackberry

English

Etymology

dew +? berry

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dju?.b(?)?i/, /?d??u?.b(?)?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?du?b??i/

Noun

dewberry (plural dewberries)

1. Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
   1. The European dewberry, Rubus caesius.
   2. The American dewberries, species of Rubus sect. Flagellares
2. The purple to black berries of these plants.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu ber?e, blæcber?e (attested in plural blaca ber?an, equivalent to black +? berry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?blækb??i/, /?blækb?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blækbe?i/

Noun

blackberry (plural blackberries)

1. A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

2. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

3. (Britain, dialectal) The blackcurrant.

Derived terms

• plenty as blackberries

Translations

Verb

blackberry (third-person singular simple present blackberries, present participle blackberrying, simple past and past participle blackberried)

1. To gather or forage for blackberries.
   • 1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books (2006), ?ISBN, page 111:

     My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

   • 2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ?ISBN, page 72:

     My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

   • 2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image (2004), ?ISBN, page 48:

     Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

Derived terms

• blackberrying

Translations

Further reading

• blackberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rubus fruticosus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies