Definitions for: Raspberry

[n] a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
[n] red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
[n] 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

Webster (1913) Definition: Rasp"ber*ry (?; 277), n. [From E. rasp, in allusion
to the apparent roughness of the fruit.] (Bot.)
(a) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Id[ae]us and
other similar brambles; as, the black, the red and the
white raspberry.
(b) The shrub bearing this fruit.

Note: Technically, raspberries are those brambles in which
the fruit separates readily from the core or
receptacle, in this differing from the blackberries, in
which the fruit is firmly attached to the receptacle.

Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry bush, razzing, snort

See Also: American raspberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, berry, black raspberry, black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, blackcap raspberry, bramble bush, call, cloudberry, cry, drupelet, dwarf mulberry, flowering raspberry, outcry, purple-flowering raspberry, red raspberry, Rubus chamaemorus, Rubus idaeus strigosus, Rubus occidentalis, Rubus occidentalis, Rubus odoratus, Rubus parviflorus, Rubus phoenicolasius, Rubus spectabilis, Rubus strigosus, salmon berry, salmonberry, shout, thimbleberry, thimbleberry, vociferation, wineberry, yell

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