Definition of American dewberry

1. Noun. Of eastern North America.

Exact synonyms: Northern Dewberry, Rubus Flagellaris
Terms within: Dewberry
Generic synonyms: Dewberry, Dewberry Bush, Running Blackberry

2. Noun. North American dewberry.
Exact synonyms: Rubus Canadensis
Generic synonyms: Dewberry, Dewberry Bush, Running Blackberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Dewberry

American chestnut
American cocker spaniel
American cocker spaniels
American cockroach
American cockroaches
American columbo
American coot
American copper
American crab apple
American cranberry
American cranberry bush
American crayfish
American creeper
American cress
American crow
American dewberry
American dog tick
American dog violet
American dogwood
American dun-bar
American dun-bars
American dwarf birch
American eagle
American eagles
American egret
American elder
American elk
American elm
American featherfoil
American feverfew

Literary usage of American dewberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Cultivated american dewberry. A variable group of American origin, from the native species: trailing or prostrate plants, the weak slender canes lying on ..."

2. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"... Rubus canadensis, being the american dewberry; and the other— Rubus villosus, the American Blackberry. General Characters and Composition. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Medical Terminology, Dental Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences by Chapin Aaron Harris (1855)
"The low blackberry ; called also american dewberry. This, according to some botanists, is the Rubus canadensis. The root is the officinal part, ..."

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