blackberry

Plural: blackberries

Noun

• large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
• bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
• A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
• The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
• Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
• The blackcurrant.

Verb

• pick or gather blackberries
  • "The children went blackberrying"
• To gather or forage for blackberries.

Synonyms

blackberry bush, bramble, brambleberry