| NOUN | plant | blackberry bush, blackberry | bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle |
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| Meaning | bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle. | |
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| Synonym | blackberry | |
| 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 | |
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