blackberry

/ˌblækˈbɛri/

/ˈblækbɛri/

Other forms: blackberries; blackberrying

Definitions of blackberry

1. noun

   bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
   synonyms: blackberry bush

   types:

   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

   boysenberry, boysenberry bush

   cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries

   Rubus loganobaccus, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus, loganberry

   red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California

   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

   type of:

   bramble bush

   any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits
2. noun

   large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
   type of:

   berry

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

   drupelet

   a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe
3. verb

   pick or gather blackberries
   “The children went blackberrying”

   type of:

   berry

   pick or gather berries