1. a berry resembling a blackberry, produced by a trailing bramble plant with blue-black fruit
Usage: often used in plural form; common in North America
2. the trailing plant that produces dewberries, belonging to the genus Rubus
Usage: botanical sense

Examples

• We picked fresh dewberries from the vines growing along the fence.
• Dewberries are sweeter than blackberries and ripen earlier in the season.
• The dewberry plant spreads across the ground with its trailing stems.
• She made jam from the dewberries she had gathered in the summer.
• Dewberries grow wild in many parts of the southern United States.
• The children stained their fingers purple picking dewberries from the brambles.