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Rubus

noun

large genus of brambles bearing berries

• Syn: ↑genus Rubus

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Rosaceae, ↑family Rosaceae, ↑rose family

• Member Meronyms: ↑bramble bush, ↑dewberry, ↑dewberry bush, ↑running blackberry

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\\ˈrübəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, blackberry

: a genus of often prickly shrubs (family Rosaceae) having 3- to 7-foliolate or simple lobed leaves, white or pink flowers with a flat persistent calyx bearing the numerous stamens, and a mass of carpels ripening into an aggregate fruit composed of many drupelets — see blackberry, dewberry, raspberry

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Rubus /rooˈbəs/

noun

The raspberry and bramble genus of the rose family

ORIGIN: L rubus a bramble-bush

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rubus, -ushe

obs. forms of rubbish.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.