blackberry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
  2. noun bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
    blackberry bush.
  3. verb pick or gather blackberries
    • The children went blackberrying

WordNet

Black"ber*ry noun
Etymology
OE. blakberye, AS. blæcerie; blæc black + berie berry.
Definitions
  1. The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

Webster 1913