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WESTERN BLACKBERRY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

American blackberry with oblong black fruit

Synonyms:

Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("western blackberry" is a kind of...):

blackberry; blackberry bush (bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle)

Meronyms (parts of "western blackberry"):

blackberry (large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "western blackberry"):

boysenberry; boysenberry bush (cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries)

loganberry; Rubus loganobaccus; Rubus ursinus loganobaccus (red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California)

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