Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several raspberries, especially Rubus parviflorus of western North America, having edible, thimble-shaped, usually red aggregate fruit.
- noun The fruit of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
raspberry , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A kind of black raspberry (
Rubus occidentalis ), common in America.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Common name of
Rubus parviflorus, a species ofRubus ,native to western and northernNorth America , fromAlaska east toOntario andMinnesota , and south to northernMexico . - noun The fruit of the above plant.
- noun The
black raspberry , Rubus occidentalis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit
- noun white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
- noun raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word thimbleberry.
Examples
-
This trip, I packed fleece and tried to bring a jar of thimbleberry jelly back home.
-
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 pm pendergraft library music lab dvd list thimbleberry music festival jimmie black fern batchelor music michigan music festival july 3-6
-
Fern, huckleberry, bearberry, service berry, the shoulder-high broad-leafed thimbleberry, and a plethora of plants Anna couldn't put a name to, tangled in the cross-hatching of rotting timber.
Blood Lure Barr, Nevada 2001
-
And we're goin 'ter have some fruitcake and some thimbleberry jam,
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
-
Pilot Peak was still on our left; but toward evening the trail we were following turned off from the creek and climbed through gooseberry and thimbleberry bushes to the top of a plateau, where was a park of cedars and flowers, and where was a spring.
-
And we're goin 'ter have some fruit-cake and some thimbleberry jam,
Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
-
The wild cherry, the whortleberry, the serviceberry, the thimbleberry, and the dewberry are very abundant.
-
The youngest Miss Piper leaped upon the rail of a fence, and with the stalk of a thimbleberry in her mouth swung her small feet to and fro and surveyed him dispassionately.
Under the Redwoods Bret Harte 1869
-
Green parrots went scolding and laughing down the thimbleberry hedges that bordered the cornfields, as much at home out of doors as within.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858
-
The trail curves into the forest then heads back to the trailhead via thickets of thimbleberry and salmonberry, a freshwater marsh and open fields (the well-marked "Hobbit" trail offers an alternative route to the last section of trail if it's not too muddy).
The Seattle Times 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.