thimbleberry

Meanings

Plural: thimbleberries

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
• Rubus parviflorus, a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico.
• The fruit of the above plant.
• The black raspberry, Rubus occidentalis.

Synonyms

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