Other forms: raspberries
A raspberry is a soft red summer fruit that squashes easily. Pick raspberries, raspberry jam, a punnet of raspberries.
It comes off its core when picked, leaving a hollow, which is what tells it apart from a blackberry — and it is not one berry but a cluster of tiny ones. Blowing a raspberry is rhyming slang: raspberry tart for a rude noise.
1nounraspberryA soft red summer fruit.
“We picked fresh raspberries and ate them with cream.”
raspberry is a fruit.
From an earlier raspis berry; the first element is of uncertain origin.
Built from
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 gem - origin.
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