RUBUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rubus mean? 

• RUBUS (noun)
  The noun RUBUS has 1 sense:

1. large genus of brambles bearing berries

  Familiarity information: RUBUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of brambles bearing berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rubus; Rubus

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Rubus"):

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

dewberry; dewberry bush; running blackberry (any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America)

Holonyms ("Rubus" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

 Context examples 

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)