RASPBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raspberry mean? 

• RASPBERRY (noun)
  The noun RASPBERRY has 3 senses:

1. 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

2. red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries

3. a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

  Familiarity information: RASPBERRY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RASPBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

raspberry; raspberry bush

Hypernyms ("raspberry" is a kind of...):

bramble bush (any prickly shrub of the genus Rubus bearing edible aggregate fruits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raspberry"):

red raspberry (any of several raspberries bearing red fruit)

black raspberry; blackcap; blackcap raspberry; Rubus occidentalis; thimbleberry (raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit)

Rubus spectabilis; salmonberry (large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries)

Rubus parviflorus; salmon berry; salmonberry; thimbleberry (white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries)

bakeapple; baked-apple berry; cloudberry; dwarf mulberry; Rubus chamaemorus; salmonberry (creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries)

flowering raspberry; purple-flowering raspberry; Rubus odoratus; thimbleberry (shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit)

Rubus phoenicolasius; wineberry (raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("raspberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

drupelet (a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe)

Holonyms ("raspberry" is a part of...):

American raspberry; Rubus idaeus strigosus; Rubus strigosus (red raspberry of North America)

black raspberry; blackcap; blackcap raspberry; Rubus occidentalis; thimbleberry (raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bird; boo; Bronx cheer; hiss; hoot; raspberry; razz; razzing; snort

Hypernyms ("raspberry" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

 Context examples 

Yes, said his mother, our Heinel had a mark like a raspberry on his right arm.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Strawberry powder was the best stabilizer, completely preventing melt‐down, followed closely by raspberry.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

A bioadhesive gel containing 10% freeze-dried black raspberries (FBR) with potential chemopreventive and antioxidant activities.

(Freeze-dried Black Raspberry Bioadhesive Gel, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles boysenberry (Rubus ursinus x idaeus), a hybrid of a raspberry, a blackberry, and/or a loganberry.

(Boysenberry Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

In Bilbao-Sainz's testing, adding 3.5 percent of either strawberry, raspberry or blackberry freeze‐dried powder reduced the water available for ice crystal formation during stirring and freezing, preventing crystal growth and slowing melting.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

The four main constituent black raspberry anthocyanins that contribute significantly to the chemopreventive effects are cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3GLU), cyanidin 3-rutinoside (C3RUT), cyanidin 3-sambubioside (C3SAM) and cyanidin 3-(2(G)-xylosyl) rutinoside (C3XRUT).

(Freeze-dried Black Raspberry Bioadhesive Gel, NCI Thesaurus)