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SALMONBERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does salmonberry mean?
• SALMONBERRY (noun)
The noun SALMONBERRY has 3 senses:
1. creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
2. white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
3. large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries
Familiarity information: SALMONBERRY used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bakeapple; baked-apple berry; cloudberry; dwarf mulberry; Rubus chamaemorus; salmonberry
Hypernyms ("salmonberry" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
White-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Rubus parviflorus; salmon berry; salmonberry; thimbleberry
Hypernyms ("salmonberry" 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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Rubus spectabilis; salmonberry
Hypernyms ("salmonberry" 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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