Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A prickly shrub (Rubus spectabilis) of western North America, having trifoliolate leaves and fragrant pinkish or purple flowers.
  • noun The edible salmon-colored raspberrylike fruit of this plant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A bush, taxonomic name Rubus spectabilis, found on the Pacific coast of North America
  • noun The fruit from this bush, similar in appearance and texture to the blackberry and raspberry

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
  • noun large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries
  • noun white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries

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Examples

  • I gave baby Jacob his first salmonberry a week ago and he bounced up and down with excitement.

    » Salmonberries Strocel.com 2009

  • As a teenager we lived in a house with a salmonberry thicket.

    » Salmonberries Strocel.com 2009

  • These ancient redwood forests and their tree-tops support myriad lichens, bryophytes and mosses as well as other vascular plants like salmonberry, huckleberry and Rhamnus trees growing some 240 feet above the earth.

    Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests 2010

  • Occasionally I'll be tricked into picking and eating a salmonberry, thinking it's a red raspberry, but even those aren't poisonous: They're just not very delicious.

    Chat Leftovers: Take your pick 2010

  • Angela was crying and blind from tears of grief and fright, but she ran; leaping over fallen trunks, squeezing between standing trees, fighting her way into vine maple and salmonberry.

    The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

  • They came to the creek-bed bordered by salmonberry and horsetails, where the rushing waters had begun to rejuvenate with the infusion of October rainwater.

    The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

  • He fills the hole, and as he leaves it, a mound of earth and muscle, stark amid a thicket of salmonberry with the trunks of spruce falling back all around it, high above the property in the late evening, he feels removed from himself, as though his body were a clumsy tool needed only a little longer.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • He fills the hole, and as he leaves it, a mound of earth and muscle, stark amid a thicket of salmonberry with the trunks of spruce falling back all around it, high above the property in the late evening, he feels removed from himself, as though his body were a clumsy tool needed only a little longer.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • He fills the hole, and as he leaves it, a mound of earth and muscle, stark amid a thicket of salmonberry with the trunks of spruce falling back all around it, high above the property in the late evening, he feels removed from himself, as though his body were a clumsy tool needed only a little longer.

    The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002

  • Stephanie grabs my hand and I lead her through fronds of blackberry and salmonberry that reach out and stroke her cheeks like beggars 'fingers.

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

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