blackberry : Idioms & Phrases


blackberry bush

  • noun bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
    blackberry.
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blackberry-lily

  • noun garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry
    leopard lily; Belamcanda chinensis.
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running blackberry

  • noun any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America
    dewberry bush; dewberry.
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sand blackberry

  • noun stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida)
    Rubus cuneifolius.
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swamp blackberry

  • noun of eastern North America
    swamp dewberry; Rubus hispidus.
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true blackberry

  • noun the true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries
    Rubus fruticosus.
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western blackberry

  • noun American blackberry with oblong black fruit
    Rubus ursinus; western dewberry.
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