1
: any of certain small fruits usually considered inferior or unfit for human consumption (as the chokeberry, prickly wild gooseberry, certain rose hips, or the fruit of the mountain ash)
especially
: the fruit of the red dogwood
2
: any plant (as certain dogwoods, mountain ash, or yellow clintonia) that bears dogberries
Dog·ber·ry
ˈdȯgˌberē sometimes ˈdäg-
plural Dogberrys
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