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thimbleberry

DEFINITIONS OF: thimbleberry

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n shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit

Synonyms:
Rubus odoratus, flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry
Type 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

n white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries

Synonyms:
Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry
Type 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

n raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit

Synonyms:
Rubus occidentalis, black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry
Type 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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