blackberry
A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
Other meanings
The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
A kind of
- berry
Related words
- blackberrita
- blackberryade
- blackberrylike
- blackberrytini
- plenty as blackberries
- Armenian blackberry
- California blackberry
- Chehalem blackberry
- Himalayan blackberry
- Pacific blackberry
- blackberry lily
- blackberry winter
Word history
From Old English "blacu berġe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “blackberry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.