raspberry
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.
Inflected forms:
form: raspberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raspberrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: raspberriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: raspberries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raspberrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raspberried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raspberried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The plant Rubus idaeus.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
pos: noun
gloss: The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
pos: noun
gloss: A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
pos: noun
gloss: Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
pos: adj
examples: It’s a gorgeous ice cream dream…a generous roll of vanilla shaped like a log…sprinkled with toasted pecan nuts…and filled with an egg-shaped center of the raspberriest raspberry ice cream ever!
Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes even raspberrier.
Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around.
Apparently, yellow raspberries are no more difficult to grow than red or black, but are deemed a specialty item because only a handful of growers are producing them. […] I have heard, however, that they are sweeter and a little less raspberrier than the red ones, so maybe I might like them.
To get raspberries that taste “raspberrier,” and blueberries that taste “bluer” buy produce that’s locally grown, in season, and hasn’t been sitting on the shelf too long, or visit any of the “you-pick-it-yourself” farms for seasonal produce.
This was the third morning running she’d relished the warmth and sugary sweet air of the Dunregan Bakehouse. This first “thawing station” on her bicycle ride into work. It had nothing to do with the fact they also made the fluffiest scones she’d ever tasted. And with lashings of the fruitiest, raspberriest jam in the world.
gloss: Of a dark pinkish red.
pos: adj
examples: She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store
gloss: To gather or forage for raspberries.
pos: verb
examples: […] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead me through the nettle-patch when we were raspberrying, because she knew I did n't know nettles; […]
"Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
[…] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying, she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.
Synonyms: hindberry
raspis
Derived words: arctic raspberry
blackcap raspberry
black raspberry
blue raspberry
raspberrita
raspberryade
raspberry beetle
raspberry crown borer
raspberryish
raspberry jam tree
raspberry ketone
raspberrylike
raspberry ripple
raspberry ripples
raspberry root rot
raspberry rose
raspberry tart
raspberrytini
raspberry tongue
Raspberry Ukraine
raspberry vinegar
red raspberry
roseleaf raspberry
strasberry
strawberry raspberry
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: малинов
roman: malinov
lang: Dutch
word: frambozenrood
lang: Finnish
word: vadelmanpunainen
lang: French
word: framboise
lang: Ido
word: frambea
lang: Japanese
word: キイチゴ色の
roman: kiichigo-iro no
lang: Polish
word: malinowy
lang: Portuguese
word: cor de framboesa
lang: Romanian
word: zmeuriu
lang: Russian
word: мали́новый
roman: malínovyj
lang: Slovak
word: malinový
lang: Spanish
word: color frambuesa
lang: Swahili
word: rangi ya rasiberi
lang: Ukrainian
word: мали́но́вий
roman: malýnóvyj