A small, dark purple or black berry resembling a blackberry, growing on a low-trailing bramble plant native to North America.
From dew + berry. Named in English around the 1600s, possibly because the berries stay close to dewy ground or are covered in dew when picked early. Related to Rubus species.
Dewberries are vanishing from popular knowledge even though they're delicious—they're a word and a plant that colonialism literally pushed out, replaced by cultivated blackberries.
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