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blackberry bush

/ˌblækˈbɛri bʊʃ/
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Other forms: blackberry bushes

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