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.

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Examples for "flowering raspberry"

Here and there will be a clump of flowering raspberry. 
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The purple- flowering raspberry is acid and insipid; it can hardly be called edible, though it is not poisonous. 
 On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls 

I noted the same complaining cry from the bees when working on the flower of the purple- flowering raspberry, what we called "Scotch caps." 
 My Boyhood 

R. ODORATUS.-Purpleflowering Raspberry. 
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The purple-flowering raspberry is acid and insipid; it can hardly be called edible, though it is not poisonous. 
 On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls 

I noted the same complaining cry from the bees when working on the flower of the purple-flowering raspberry, what we called "Scotch caps." 
 My Boyhood 

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

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