flowering raspberry

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

   Synonymspurple-flowering raspberryRubus odoratusthimbleberry

   Broaderraspberry

Questions about flowering raspberry

What does flowering raspberry mean?

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

What is another word for flowering raspberry?

Close synonyms include purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus, thimbleberry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flowering raspberry a common word?

flowering raspberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.