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raspberry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun raspberry has 3 senses
- raspberry(n = noun.plant) raspberry bush - woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries; Array is a kind of bramble bush
- raspberry(n = noun.food) Array - red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries; Array is a kind of berry, drupelet
- raspberry(n = noun.communication) bird, boo, bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, razz, razzing, snort - a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt; Array is a kind of call, cry, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell
has particulars: red raspberry, black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, rubus occidentalis, thimbleberry, rubus spectabilis, salmonberry, rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry, thimbleberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry, flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, rubus odoratus, thimbleberry, rubus phoenicolasius, wineberry
is a part of american raspberry, rubus idaeus strigosus, rubus strigosus, black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, rubus occidentalis, thimbleberry
CIDE DICTIONARY
raspberry, n. [From E. rasp, in allusion to the apparent roughness of the fruit.].
The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idæus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry. [1913 Webster]
" Technically, raspberries are those brambles in which the fruit separates readily from the core or receptacle, in this differing from the blackberries, in which the fruit is firmly attached to the receptacle."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
raspberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a bramble, Rubus idaeus, having usu. red berries consisting of numerous drupels on a conical receptacle. b this berry.
2 any of various red colours.
3 colloq. a a sound made with the lips expressing dislike, derision, or disapproval (orig. raspberry tart, rhyming sl. = fart). b a show of strong disapproval (got a raspberry from the audience).
1 a a bramble, Rubus idaeus, having usu. red berries consisting of numerous drupels on a conical receptacle. b this berry.
2 any of various red colours.
3 colloq. a a sound made with the lips expressing dislike, derision, or disapproval (orig. raspberry tart, rhyming sl. = fart). b a show of strong disapproval (got a raspberry from the audience).
Idiom
raspberry-cane a raspberry plant. raspberry vinegar a kind of syrup made from raspberries.
Etymology
16th-c. rasp (now dial.) f. obs. raspis, of unkn. orig., + BERRY
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