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PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purple-flowering raspberry mean?
• PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY (noun)
The noun PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY has 1 sense:
1. shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit
Familiarity information: PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
flowering raspberry; purple-flowering raspberry; Rubus odoratus; thimbleberry
Hypernyms ("purple-flowering raspberry" is a kind of...):
raspberry; 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)
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