RUBUS URSINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rubus ursinus mean? 

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

1. American blackberry with oblong black fruit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBUS URSINUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American blackberry with oblong black fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry

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

blackberry; blackberry bush (bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle)

Meronyms (parts of "Rubus ursinus"):

blackberry (large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus)

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

boysenberry; boysenberry bush (cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries)

loganberry; Rubus loganobaccus; Rubus ursinus loganobaccus (red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California)

 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)