(n.) The fruit of certain species of bramble (Rubus); in England, the fruit of R. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in America, that of R. canadensis and R. hispidus, species of low blackberries.
(n.) The plant which bears the fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) A peak of 6.6 million viewers, 30% of the TV audience at the time, watched between 9.45pm and 10pm as Michelle Dewberry was told "You're hired" by Sir Alan Sugar.
(2) Its second series, won by Michelle Dewberry, was also watched by 5.7 million viewers.
(3) In the normal habitat of the armadillo in Louisiana there are thorny bushes consisting mostly of the green briar and the southern dewberry.
(4) Ronnie Dewberry, 54, another strike leader who has adopted the name Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, called himself a "captive new Afrikan prisoner of war" unjustly jailed for a 1980 murder he denies.
(5) Thus was born the Short Corridor Collective, comprising Ashker, Ronnie Dewberry, who is black and Antonio Guillen and Arturo Castellanos, who are latino.
(6) Is it surprising that the first two winners of The Apprentice, Tim Campbell and Michelle Dewberry, no longer work for Sugar?
(7) The second series of the business-themed reality show has been garnering larger audiences and far more media attention than the first, culminating in last night's showdown between Dewberry and Ruth Badger.
(8) In the final challenge the two rivals had to organise a themed party at Tower Bridge and though Badger made more money, Sugar plumped for Dewberry, a former checkout girl from Hull, because he preferred her ideas.
Rubus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) We observed a four-year-old girl with Stevens-Johnson syndrome attributed to ingestion of salmon berries (Rubus spectabilis).
(2) The present work is concerned with the aroma of hybrids between raspberry (Rubus idaeus, L.) and arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus, L.).
(3) The branched trisaccharide, 2-O-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-6-O-(alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-D-glucopyranos e (2), is regarded as the sugar moiety of an anthocyanin pigment isolated from the fruits and flowers of certain Begonia, Clivia, Rubus, Prunus, and Ribis species.
(4) (PX) and ethanolic and acetone extracts of Rubus ellipiticus Smith (PX) inhibited pregnancy in 70-90% of rats.
(5) Aqueous extracts of Rubus parvifolius have been proved useful in shortening bleeding time and coagulation time in mice, shortening euglobulinlysis time in rabbits, inhibiting platelet thrombosis in rabbits in vivo, Rubus parvifolius increasing coronary flow in isolated rat heart, preventing rats from pituitrin induced changes of ECG and Rubus parvifolius increasing the tolerance of mice to hypoxia.
(6) Such particles were detected in the following SMYE sources: D-74 from Germany, two from the United Kingdom in Fragaria vesca 'Alpine' indicator plants and Oregon MY-18 in Rubus rosifolius.
(7) Rubusoside (the beta-D-glucosyl ester of 13-O-beta-D-glucosyl-steviol), which is the major sweet principle of leaves of Rubus suavissimus S. Lee, was subjected to 1,4-alpha-transglucosylation by the cyclodextringlucanotransferase-starch system (the CGTase system).
(8) Different xyloglucan (XG) fractions were isolated from Rubus fruticosus cells cultured in suspension.
(9) A monocyclic N-alkyl-hydroxypiperidine was shown to be the strongest inhibitor of the series upon cycloartenol-cyclase (I50 = 1 microM) from maize embryos but was much less effective on the beta(alpha)-amyrin-cyclases from Rubus fruticosus suspension cultures or pea cotyledons.
(10) Oemleria cerasiformis, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Rhamnus purshianus and Rubus spectabilis; gynaecological problems with bark of Abies grandis, Arbutus menziesii, Populus tremuloides, Prunus emarginata, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Sambucus racemosa; and dermatological complaints with the bark of Mahonia spp., Rubus spectabilis, and Symphoricarpos albus.
(11) Dried leaves of agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria), alfalfa (Medicago sativa), blackberry (Rubus fructicosus), celandine (Chelidonium majus), eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus), lady's mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris), and lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis); seeds of coriander (Coriandrum sativum); dried berries of juniper (Juniperus communis); bulbs of garlic (Allium sativum) and roots of liquorice (Glycyrhizza glabra) were studied.
(12) In view of the pharmacological interest in phenolic substances, we have determined the total amount of anthocyanins and polyphenols present in the berries of several cultivars of Ribes, Rubus, and Vaccinium genera.
(13) The volatile components of cloudberries (Rubus chamaemorus L.) have been analysed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, and about 80 components, comprising 93% of the aroma concentrate, have been identified.