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Definition of dogberry
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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
Dogberry
noun (2)Dog·ber·ry | \ ˈdȯgˌberē sometimes ˈdäg- \
plural Dogberrys
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The first known use of dogberry was in 1676
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