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Meaning of THIMBLEBERRY

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
  2. [n]  white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
  3. [n]  shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit
 
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 Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, Rubus odoratus, Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry
 
 See Also: raspberry, raspberry bush

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Thim"ble*ber`ry\, n. (Bot.)
A kind of black raspberry ({Rubus occidentalis}), common in
America.
 

 

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