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PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple-flowering raspberry mean? 

PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY (noun)
  The noun PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY used as a noun is very rare.


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PURPLE-FLOWERING RASPBERRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flowering raspberry; purple-flowering raspberry; Rubus odoratus; thimbleberry

Hypernyms ("purple-flowering raspberry" is a kind of...):

raspberry; raspberry bush (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)


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