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running blackberry

/ˌrʌnɪŋ ˌblækˈbɛri/
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Other forms: running blackberries

Definitions of running blackberry
  1. noun
    any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America
    synonyms: dewberry, dewberry bush
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    types:
    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:
    blackberry, blackberry bush
    bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
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