RASPBERRY BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raspberry bush mean? 

• RASPBERRY BUSH (noun)
  The noun RASPBERRY BUSH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RASPBERRY BUSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RASPBERRY BUSH (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 bush" 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 bush"):

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)