'Rubus Idaeus' definitions:
Definition of 'Rubus idaeus'
(from WordNet)
noun
The common European raspberry; fruit red or orange [syn: wild raspberry, European raspberry, framboise, Rubus idaeus]
Definition of 'Rubus Idaeus'
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]