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Thimbleberry

Thimbleberry \Thim"ble*ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) A kind of black raspberry ( Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

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thimbleberry

n. 1 (taxlink Rubus parviflorus species noshow=1), a species of ''Rubus'', native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico. 2 The fruit of the above plant. 3 The black raspberry, (taxlink Rubus occidentalis species noshow=1).

WordNet
thimbleberry
  1. n. shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit [syn: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus]

  2. white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries [syn: salmonberry, salmon berry, Rubus parviflorus]

  3. raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit [syn: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis]

Usage examples of "thimbleberry".

They passed a large open space, with light gravel partly covered with thimbleberry bushes and sagebrush.

Center, the boat rental concession, and a clapboard windowless hall where National Park Service naturalists liked to shut the tourists away from moose and fox and thimbleberry, from rain and wind and mosquitoes and show them slides of Nature.

Muffled in a dark sweater and black beret, Anna was part of a living shadow beneath the thimbleberry bushes that overhung the deck.

Anna wished she could see her face but the darkness in the shadow of the thimbleberry was absolute.

The shores were snowy with thimbleberry blossoms, a lacy skirting between the blue of the water and the green of the trees.

A faint scent of perfume invaded the clean night air as Patience came round the bulge of thimbleberry branches.

She turned and began walking again, the moisture-laden thimbleberry branches slapping dark patterns on her trousers.

As if granting her wish, a flash of reddish fur illuminated the dark green of the thimbleberry not four yards from where she sat.

The warm mushroom smell of decaying fir needles filled my lungs, an earthy undertone to the rank green of the wet salal and thimbleberry that lined our way.

After Eragon finished breakfast, he hauled the bundle of clothes onto his bed and carefully unfolded them, finding two full-length tunics of russet trimmed with thimbleberry green, a set of creamy leggings to wrap his calves in, and three pairs of socks so soft, they felt like liquid when he pulled them through his hands.

Jak tried different combinations, gobbling some thimbleberries and smoked cod, following that up with some bottled water and topping off the meal with curried pickles.

After breakfast went out berrying, found as many blackberries and thimbleberries as I could eat: made me think of home.

Past the slate ledge where the Anora River became airborne, down a glen filled with thimbleberries, and then finally into a large clearing guarded on one side by a pile of boulders, Roran found that those at the head of the procession had already begun setting up camp.

The wildflowers were dying down as June wore on, but there were still clumps of ocean spray with drooping sprays of tiny creamy-white flowers, thickets of bitter cherry with silvery-bronze bark and sweet-smelling snowy clusters of blossom, thimbleberry and trailing blackberry beside the creek, blue chicory beside the trail.

Fern, huckleberry, bearberry, service berry, the shoulder-high broad-leafed thimbleberry, and a plethora of plants Anna couldn't put a name to, tangled in the cross-hatching of rotting timber.