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Dewberry vs Blackberry - What's the difference?

dewberry | blackberry |

As proper nouns the difference between dewberry and blackberry

is that dewberry is while blackberry is (telephony|computer hardware) a smartphone brand the brand name of a wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and internet-capable pda, by or by extension similar apparatus made by competitors.

As a verb blackberry is

to send a text message or e-mail with a blackberry device.

dewberry

English

(wikipedia dewberry)

Noun

(dewberries)
  • Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
  • # The European dewberry, Rubus caesius .
  • # The American dewberries, species of
  • The purple to black berries of these plants.

    • blackberry

    English

    (wikipedia blackberry) (Rubus fruticosus)

    Noun

    (blackberries)
  • A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
  • The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
  • (UK, in some regions) The blackcurrant.

    • Synonyms

    * (shrub and fruit) bramble

    Derived terms

    * blackberrying

    Verb

  • To gather or forage for .
  • * 1925 , Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway :
    • She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
  • * 1977 , Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances , Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068, page 111:
    • My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
  • * 2001 , Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337, page 72:
    • My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
  • * 2004 , Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland , Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648, page 48:
    • Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire ): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.
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