Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Raspberry

Rasp′ber-ry

(răz′bĕr-ry̆; 277)
,
Noun.
[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.
☞ 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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Raspberry

R'ASPBERRY

,
Noun.
[from rasp, so named from the roughness of the brambles.]
The fruit of a bramble or species of rubus; a berry growing on a prickly plant; as the black raspberry; the red and the white raspberry.

Similar Results