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Blackberry
The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
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Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
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The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.
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A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.
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The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis a…
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