| NOUN | food | blackberry | large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus |
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| plant | blackberry, blackberry bush | bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle | |
| VERB | contact | blackberry | pick or gather blackberries |
| Sounds | blae'kbeh.riy | |
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| Rhymes | accusatory ... zealotry: 432 rhymes with riy... | |
| Meaning | large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus. | |
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| Part of | true blackberry, Rubus fruticosus | The true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries |
| western blackberry, western dewberry, Rubus ursinus | American blackberry with oblong black fruit | |
| Broader | berry | Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits |
| drupelet | A small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | |
| Spanish | mora, zarzamora | |
| Catalan | mora, móra, móra negra | |
| Verbs | blackberry | pick or gather blackberries |
| Meaning | bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle. | |
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| Synonym | blackberry bush | |
| Narrower | dewberry, dewberry bush, running blackberry | Any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America |
| sand blackberry, Rubus cuneifolius | Stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida) | |
| true blackberry, Rubus fruticosus | The true blackberry of Europe as well as any of numerous varieties having sweet edible black or dark purple berries | |
| western blackberry, western dewberry, Rubus ursinus | American blackberry with oblong black fruit | |
| Broader | bramble bush | Any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits |
| Spanish | zarza | |
| Catalan | esbarzer | |
| Meaning | pick or gather blackberries. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | In the summer they like to go out and blackberry | |
| Example | "The children went blackberrying" | |
| Broader | berry | pick or gather berries |
| Spanish | buscar moras | |
| Nouns | blackberry | large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus |
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