Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several North American raspberries, especially Rubus parviflorus, R. occidentalis, or R. odoratus of the rose family, having thimble-shaped aggregate fruit.
- n. The fruit of any of these plants.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See raspberry, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. botany Common name of Rubus parviflorus, a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico.
- n. The fruit of the above plant.
- n. The black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.
WordNet 3.0
- n. shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit
- n. white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
- n. raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
Etymologies
- thimble + berry (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Fern, huckleberry, bearberry, service berry, the shoulder-high broad-leafed thimbleberry, and a plethora of plants Anna couldn't put a name to, tangled in the cross-hatching of rotting timber.”
“And we're goin 'ter have some fruitcake and some thimbleberry jam,”
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"
“Pilot Peak was still on our left; but toward evening the trail we were following turned off from the creek and climbed through gooseberry and thimbleberry bushes to the top of a plateau, where was a park of cedars and flowers, and where was a spring.”
“And we're goin 'ter have some fruit-cake and some thimbleberry jam,”
“The wild cherry, the whortleberry, the serviceberry, the thimbleberry, and the dewberry are very abundant.”
“The youngest Miss Piper leaped upon the rail of a fence, and with the stalk of a thimbleberry in her mouth swung her small feet to and fro and surveyed him dispassionately.”
“Green parrots went scolding and laughing down the thimbleberry hedges that bordered the cornfields, as much at home out of doors as within.”
“The trail curves into the forest then heads back to the trailhead via thickets of thimbleberry and salmonberry, a freshwater marsh and open fields (the well-marked "Hobbit" trail offers an alternative route to the last section of trail if it's not too muddy).”
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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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...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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berry neat
very nice enticing, berrilicious words
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Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
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