western blackberry

Questions about western blackberry

What does western blackberry mean?

western blackberry means "American blackberry with oblong black fruit".

What is another word for western blackberry?

Close synonyms include western dewberry, Rubus ursinus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is western blackberry a common word?

western blackberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.