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raspberry
/ˈɹɑːzb(ə)ɹi/
noun 6name 3adj 2verb 2
Collocations
2(noun.)
QUANT
punnet
She picked two punnets of raspberries at the farm this morning.
RASPBERRY + NOUN
cane
My grandmother grows raspberry canes along the fence in her garden.
Definitions
noun
1
The plant Rubus idaeus.
2
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
3
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
4
A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
adj
1
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
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.
2
Of a dark pinkish red.
She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store
verb
1
To gather or forage for raspberries.
[…] 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."
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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!
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Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes even raspberrier.
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Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around.
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[…] 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; […]
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"Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
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[…] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
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