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 

• SALMONBERRY (noun)

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)