Dogberry

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  • noun. Any of various wild fruit-bearing shrubs or trees, such as a dogwood, gooseberry, or mountain ash.
  • noun. The fruit of any of these plants.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The berry of the dogwood, Cornus sanguinea.
  • noun. In Nova Scotia, the mountain-ash, Pyrus Americana.
  • noun. Ribes Cynosbati. See wild *gooseberry, 1.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.
  • noun. the dogwood.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The berry of the dogwood.
  • Word Usage
    "Both banks were packed with huckleberry, dogberry, ground juniper, and alders, with plenty of brambles behind them."
    variant
    dogcherry