'Raspberry' definitions:
Definition of 'raspberry'
From: WordNet
noun
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 [syn: raspberry, raspberry bush]
noun
Red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
noun
Definition of 'Raspberry'
From: GCIDE
- Raspberry \Rasp"ber*ry\ (r[a^]z"b[e^]r*r[y^]; 277), n. [From E. rasp, in allusion to the apparent roughness of the fruit.] (Bot.) (a) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry. (b) The shrub bearing this fruit. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Technically, raspberries are those brambles in which the fruit separates readily from the core or receptacle, in this differing from the blackberries, in which the fruit is firmly attached to the receptacle. [1913 Webster]