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BLACKBERRY BUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
Synonyms:
blackberry; blackberry bush
Classified under:
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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