Usage of "thimbleberry"

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

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

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

Synonyms

Examples for "blackcap"

From a verbena hard by came the liquid song of a blackcap. 
 South Wind 

The songs of chiffchaff, blackcap and crickets play out with distant skylarks. 
 The Guardian 

The most musical singer we heard was the blackcap warbler. 
 Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography 

A few years ago a blackcap joined the throng, at first an interesting, rare visitor. 
 The Irish Times 

Is the blackcap extending its range, or was it simply blown here by gale-force winds? 
 The Irish Times 

I thought maybe your sister would relish my black raspberry. 
 The Second Violin 

Some of the other scoops of deliciousness include melted marshmallow, black raspberry and cake batter. 
 News.com.au 

The black raspberry, which we called thimble berry, was found along the stone walls, but was not abundant. 
 Confessions of Boyhood 

A rooting tip of the black raspberry.] 
 Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the ... 

I'm fixing salmon tenders with strawberry dip, moose enchiladas and squares of fresh-baked bread with black raspberry spread for appetizers. 
 Down river 

At one end of the garden were several rows of blackcap raspberry bushes, which had grown into an awful snarl. 
 Driven Back to Eden 

There is another American species of raspberry ( Rubus occidentalis) that is almost as dear to memory as the wild strawberry-thethimble-berry ,orblack-cap. 
 The Home Acre 

Usage of thimbleberry in English

Green parrots went scolding and laughing down the thimbleberry hedges that bordered the cornfields, as much at home out of doors as within. 
 A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA) 

There are blackberries also, Lady Mary; and some people call them thimbleberries. 
 Lady Mary and Her Nurse; Or, A Peep into the Canadian Forest 

Ferns and thimbleberries and other green leafy plants flourished alongside mushrooms of every shape, size, and color. 
 Brisingr 

"I thought you were to furnish the thimbleberries for lunch," he said. 
 Stories of Birds 

"And I'll pick thimbleberries for our lunch," said Phyllis, eagerly. 
 Stories of Birds 

Thimbleberry through the time

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Meanings of thimbleberry in English