wineberry

[ wahyn-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]

noun,plural wine·ber·ries.
  1. a prickly shrub, Rubus phoenicolasius, of China and Japan, having pinkish or white flowers and small, red, edible fruit.

  2. the fruit of this plant.

Origin of wineberry

1
before 1000; Middle English winberie,Old English wīnberige grape. See wine, berry

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How to use wineberry in a sentence

  • Not far off Margaret, holding out a bunch of corn, occupied the middle of an opening in which little red wineberries grew.

    Northwest! | Harold Bindloss
  • The brake was in black shadow, but a broad patch of moonlight fell on the green carpet of wineberries a yard or two away.

    The Gold Trail | Harold Bindloss

British Dictionary definitions for wineberry

wineberry

/ (ˈwaɪnˌbɛrɪ) /


nounplural -ries
  1. another name for mako 2 (def. 1)

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