thimbleberry (n.)

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

    [ Syn: flowering raspberry , purple-flowering raspberry , rubus odoratus ]

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

    [ Syn: salmonberry , salmon berry , rubus parviflorus ]

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

    [ Syn: black raspberry , blackcap , blackcap raspberry , rubus occidentalis ]

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