thimbleberry
thimbleberry · thimbleberries
Rubus parviflorus, a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America,…Rubus parviflorus, a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico.
Meaning
3 sensesRubus parviflorus, a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico.
white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
The fruit of the above plant.
The black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.
raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
Origin
From thimble + berry.From thimble + berry.
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Forms
plural: thimbleberries| Singular | thimbleberry |
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| Plural | thimbleberries |
regular
Synonyms
10 synonymsClose in meaning
- white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries:salmonberrysalmon berryRubus parviflorus
- raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit:black raspberryblackcapblackcap raspberryRubus occidentalis
- shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit:flowering raspberrypurple-flowering raspberryRubus odoratus