blackberry

noun (plural blackberries)

• 1an edible soft fruit consisting of a cluster of soft purple-black drupelets.

• 2the prickly climbing shrub of the rose family which bears blackberries. Also called bramble.

  • Rubus fruticosus, family Rosaceae (sometimes treated as an aggregate of many species)

verb (blackberries, blackberrying, blackberried)

• gather blackberries in the wild: she asked me to go blackberrying with her