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blackberry

Syllabification: (black·ber·ry)
Pronunciation: /ˈblakˌberē/

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Definition of 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 that bears this fruit and that grows extensively in the wild.
    • Rubus fruticosus, family Rosaceae (sometimes treated as an aggregate of many species)

verb (blackberries, blackberrying, blackberried)

[no object] (usually as noun blackberrying)
  • gather blackberries in the wild.

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Definition of blackberry in the British & World English dictionary