Raspberry
['rɑːzb(ə)rɪ] or ['ræzbəri]
Definition
(noun.) red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries.
(noun.) 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.
Edited by Babbage--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
(n.) The shrub bearing this fruit.
Typist: Ruth
Definition
n. the fruit of several plants of genus Rubus the plant producing it—also Rasp.—n. Rasp′berry-bush the shrub which yields the raspberry.—Raspberry borer the larv?of one of the clear-winged sphinxes; Raspberry vinegar a drink of raspberry juice vinegar and sugar.
Editor: Louise
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see raspberries in a dream, foretells you are in danger of entanglements which will prove interesting before you escape from them. For a woman to eat them, means distress over circumstantial evidence in some occurrence causing gossip.
Edited by Bernice
Examples
- Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That I might have everything correct I opened a pot of raspberry jam which we had from London a long time ago. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Typist: Trevor