单词 | dewberry |
释义 | dewberryn. A species of blackberry or bramble-berry, the name being applied both to the fruit and the shrub: in Great Britain Rubus cæsius, a low-growing procumbent species, the black fruit of which has a bluish bloom; in North America R. canadensis, resembling the British plant in its low growth and trailing habit, but differing in the fruit. In some earlier English writers, and modern dialects, the name is applied to the gooseberry n. (dayberry n.).Shakespeare's dewberry, which is mentioned among delicate cultivated fruits, is supposed by some to have meant the gooseberry; Hanmer conjectured the raspberry. In some books dewberry is erroneously given as the cloud-berry, Rubus Chamæmorus. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > gooseberry gooseberry?1533 groser1548 dewberry1578 thorn-grape1578 feaberry1597 goosegog1823 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry gooseberry?1533 groser1548 St John's berry1561 dewberry1578 thorn-grape1578 feaberry1597 pearl gooseberry1688 wineberry1703 dayberry1736 honey-blob1746 blobc1750 groset1786 goosegog1823 Worcesterberry1923 golden berry1930 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > blackberry > types of dewberry1578 Norway berry1674 roebuckberry1771 loganberry1893 youngberry1927 boysenberry1935 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > blackberry > types of dewberry1578 Norway berry1674 roebuckberry1771 loganberry1893 veitchberry1913 Young dewberry1925 youngberry1927 boysenberry1935 marionberry1987 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. iv. 661 The fruite is called a Dew~berie, or blackberie. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxii. 208 When Mulberries cannot be gotten, Blackberries or Dewberries may supply their room. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 141 Some Dew-berries, or the Norway Berry, whose species is the same that grows on Brambles. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June vi. 77 Dew-berry briar Roots. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 116 The root of an ancient beech, its base overgrown with the dewberry. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 106 Dewberry, or Grey Bramble... The fruit..is generally less than that of a fullsized Blackberry; but the grains of which it is composed are usually much larger, and..covered with fine bloom. 1881 Scribner's Monthly 22 642 Overrun with dewberry-briars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1578 |
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