thimbleberries

Meanings

Noun

• shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit
• white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
• raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
• plural of thimbleberry

Synonyms

black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus occidentalis, Rubus odoratus, Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry, thimbleberry