raspberry

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  1. noun Any of various shrubby, usually prickly plants of the genus Rubus in the rose family, such as R. idaeus var. strigosus of eastern North America and R. idaeus of Europe, that bear edible fruit.
  2. noun The aggregate fruit of any of these plants, consisting of many small, fleshy, usually red drupelets.
  3. noun A moderate to dark or deep purplish red.
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  • You want a little more raspberry, a little more chocolate here or there? —  Barry Schuler: Genomics 101
  • To face Freddie and confess that any girl in the world had given him, Derek Underhill, what he coarsely termed the raspberry was a task so revolting as to be utterly beyond his powers. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Available in tutti-frutti, raspberry, and orange, the flavors may be more mundane than Cantu's, but each —  Cool Hunting
  • At first bite my palate was hit by the tang of raspberry, and once my tongue found the centre, the mixture of caramel and raspberry came flooding in. —  Chocablog
  • She was the inspiration for team members 'color choices this year -- raspberry pink, Bonnie's favorite color, and gray, which reminded them of her silvery mane. —  post-gazette.com - News
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  1. Obsolete raspis, raspberry + berry. Sense 4, possibly short for raspberry tart, rhyming slang for fart.

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  1. Formerly also rasberry and raspis-berry; from rasp, or rasp (see rasp), + berry.
 

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