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Definition of Thimbleberry

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

2. Noun. White-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries.

3. Noun. Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit.

Definition of Thimbleberry

1. n. A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

Definition of Thimbleberry

1. Noun. (botany) Common name of ''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. ¹

2. Noun. The fruit of the above plant. ¹

3. Noun. The black raspberry, ''Rubus occidentalis''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thimbleberry

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Medical Definition of Thimbleberry

1. A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thimbleberry

thigmotropism thigmotropisms thigs thiirane thiiranes thiirene thiirenes thilk thill thiller

thillers thills thim thimble thimbleberries thimbleberry (current term) thimbled thimbleeye thimbleeyes thimbleful

thimblefuls thimblerig thimblerigged thimblerigger thimbleriggers thimblerigging thimblerigs thimbles thimblesful thimbleweed

Literary usage of Thimbleberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bright Ideas for Entertaining; Two Hundred Forms of Amusement Or by Herbert B. Linscott (1905)
"Elderberry. Holly berry. 9. " " is melancholy ? Blueberry. 10. " " " named for a month ? Juneberry. 11. " " " used in sewing ? thimbleberry. 12. ..."

2. The Second Reading-book by Eben Harlow Davis (1889)
"THE DISCONTENTED thimbleberry. Two little thimbleberries found themselves growing on a bush together, in a lane. The bush had for a very near ..."

3. The ... [first-fourth] Reading-book by Eben Harlow Davis (1889)
"THE DISCONTENTED thimbleberry. Two little thimbleberries found themselves growing on a bush together, in a lane. ..."

4. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"The western thimbleberry grows among the weeds of the lower hills and valleys, sometimes climbing high up the mountain slope, and in southern California ..."

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