Raspberry vs Mulberry - What's the difference?
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The plant Rubus idaeus .
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus .
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
A (colour) red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
Of a dark pinkish red.
To gather or forage for .
* 1903 , M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich , Little, Brown, and Company (1903),
* 1917 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams , Chapter 37:
* 1944 , Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks , G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944),
* 1976 , Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward , Newport Press (1976),
* 1988 , Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness , MysteriousPress.com (2011), ISBN 9781453232521,
(pejorative, colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.
(colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
Cockney rhyming slang
Any of several trees, of the genus Morus , having edible fruit
the fruit of this tree
a dark purple colour tinted with red.
As nouns the difference between raspberry and mulberry
is that raspberry is the plant Rubus idaeus while mulberry is any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruit.As adjectives the difference between raspberry and mulberry
is that raspberry is containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries while mulberry is of a dark purple colour tinted with red.As a verb raspberry
is to gather or forage for raspberries.raspberry
English
(wikipedia raspberry)Etymology 1
From earlier raspis berry'', possibly from ''raspise'' (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-(etyl) ''vinum raspeys , of uncertain origin.Noun
(raspberries)Derived terms
* black raspberry * raspberry vinegar * Scotland raspberrySynonyms
* (obsolete) hindberryAdjective
(-)- She wore a raspberry beret'' — lyrics of ''Raspberry Beret , by the musician
Verb
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- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
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- Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying , and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
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- My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
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- In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying , she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.
