western dewberry

Questions about western dewberry

What does western dewberry mean?

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

What is another word for western dewberry?

Close synonyms include western blackberry, 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 dewberry a common word?

western dewberry 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.