Bläck'bĕr-ry, n.

n. [black and berry; A-S. blæc-berige, O. Eng. blakberye.] The berry of the bramble, Rubus fruticosus; a popular name applied to different species of the genus Rubus, and their fruit. The high blackberry of America is the Rubus villosus; the low blackberry, the R. Canadensis; the low bush blackberry of the south, the R. trivialis.