Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several prickly shrubs of the genus Rubus, especially R. spectabilis of western North America, having trifoliate leaves and fragrant reddish flowers.
- n. The edible salmon-colored, raspberrylike fruit of this plant.
Wiktionary
- n. A bush, taxonomic name Rubus spectabilis, found on the Pacific coast of North America
- n. The fruit from this bush, similar in appearance and texture to the blackberry and raspberry
WordNet 3.0
- n. creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
- n. large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries
- n. white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
Examples
“I gave baby Jacob his first salmonberry a week ago and he bounced up and down with excitement.”
“As a teenager we lived in a house with a salmonberry thicket.”
“Occasionally I'll be tricked into picking and eating a salmonberry, thinking it's a red raspberry, but even those aren't poisonous: They're just not very delicious.”
“These ancient redwood forests and their tree-tops support myriad lichens, bryophytes and mosses as well as other vascular plants like salmonberry, huckleberry and Rhamnus trees growing some 240 feet above the earth.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests
“Angela was crying and blind from tears of grief and fright, but she ran; leaping over fallen trunks, squeezing between standing trees, fighting her way into vine maple and salmonberry.”
“They came to the creek-bed bordered by salmonberry and horsetails, where the rushing waters had begun to rejuvenate with the infusion of October rainwater.”
“He fills the hole, and as he leaves it, a mound of earth and muscle, stark amid a thicket of salmonberry with the trunks of spruce falling back all around it, high above the property in the late evening, he feels removed from himself, as though his body were a clumsy tool needed only a little longer.”
“Stephanie grabs my hand and I lead her through fronds of blackberry and salmonberry that reach out and stroke her cheeks like beggars 'fingers.”
“He passed up a sluggish waterway lined by alder and maple, covered with dense thickets, a jungle in which flourished the stalwart salmonberry and the thorny sticks of the devil's club.”
“The surface of the timber lands was generally covered from five to ten feet in depth with fallen trees, in all stages of decay, moss-grown, and half concealed by a thick growth of salal and salmonberry bushes.”
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Interesting words
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
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berry neat
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
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ecology
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