raspberry

→ Japanese: ラズベリー (razuberī)

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 Germanic origin.

عُلَّيْق m (ʕullayq) (which also means blackberry)

Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.

The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.


raspberry

en-adj

raspberry (comparative raspberrier, superlative raspberriest)

raspberrier (comparative)
raspberriest (superlative)

She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store

1985, Prince (lyrics and music), “Raspberry Beret”, in Around the World in a Day, performed by Prince and the Revolution:


raspberry

Cockney rhyming slang, from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it). Compare raspberry ripple = cripple.

Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massive raspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been an object lesson in how not to make a government announcement."

2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8:

(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 (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.


lawyer

From Middle English lawier, lawyer, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.

A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor)

His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade. - aphorism often credited to Abraham Lincoln, but without attestation

A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.

regsgeleerde

professional person authorized to practice law

The species of Eugnomus are very partial to the lawyer (Rubus australis ) when in bloom.

1881 April, George M. Thomson, “On the Fertilization of New Zealand Flowering Plants”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, volume 13, page 250:

In the lawyer (Rubus australis) a considerable differentiation has taken place. All the alllies of this plant (such as the true roses, brambles, rasps, &c.), exhibit a strong development of epidermal structures in the form of hooks, spines, or hairs, but in none are these structures so perfect as in our lawyer.

1885, New Zealand Journal of Science - Volume 2, page 417:

A plant that is excessively troublesome in the localities where the native vegetation has been least disturbed is the “lawyer” (Rubus australis).

1915, John Henderson, P. Marshall, Percy Gates Morgan, The Geology and Mineral Resources of the Reefton Subdivision, Westport and North Westland Division, page 6:

Any of various plants that have hooked thorns.

A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis

Besides the bags and nets common throughout the continent, these tribes have water-bags, which they make of closely-plaited “lawyer” (Calamus Australis), and also of palm-leaf sewn with the sinews of animals.

1886, Edward Micklethwaite Curr, The Australian Race, page 427:

The nest was a foot or two from the ground, and placed in a bunch of lawyer (Calamus ) canes.

1901, Archibald James Campbell, Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, page 267:

This lawyer (Calamus australis) is a climbing palm, throwing up shoots from its roots as thick as a man's finger and tough as wire, covered with sharp spines, and bearing much divided leaves, alternating with tendrils twenty feel long.

1905, W. J. Gordon, “Jackey Jackey”, in The Boy's Own Annual, volume 28, page 318:

They were usually very neatly laid out under arching masses of the exasperating lawyer-palm vines ( Calamus moti and C. australis ), and consequently not too easy to examine.

1910 October, Sidney Wm. Jackson, “Additional Notes on Tooth-billed Bower-Bird (Scenopaeetes dentirostris) of North Queensland”, in The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union, volume 10, page 84:

Lawyer Vine (Calamus muelleri), also known as Hairy Mary and Wait-a-while, is actually a palm, that grows in long canes that loop and snake through the undergrowth.

2014, Germaine Greer, White Beech: The Rainforest Years, page 171:

The trail of the lawyer vine (CALAMUS OBSTRUENS), with its leaf sheath and long tentacles bristling with incurved hooks, is over it all.

2022, E. J. Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber:

Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti.

The stems of the "lawyer vine" (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.

2011, A. C. Haddon, W. H. R. Rivers, Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, page 89:

A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.


blackberry

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.

absolute state like in Syriac but not attested

ܦܛܠ (pṭal) (indeclinable) (neither means blackberry reliably but also thornbush, bramble. briar)

פטל (*pṭal) (indeclinable) (neither means blackberry reliably but also thornbush, bramble. briar)

Rubus fruticosus
Rubus fruticosus#Translingual

A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.


loganberry

From Logan + berry, named for the American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841-1928).

Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 379:

A hybrid berry, produced by crossing a raspberry with a blackberry, considered a species Rubus loganobaccus, a variety Rubus ursinus var. loganobaccus, or a nothospecies Rubus × loganobaccus.


bramble

From Middle English brembel, from Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal Proto-West Germanic *brāmil, diminutive of *brām (English broom).

(chiefly Scotland) The soft fruit borne by the species Rubus fruticosus formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.


cloudberry

Rubus chamaemorus
Rubus chamaemorus#Translingual

A species of slow-growing bramble, Rubus chamaemorus.


blackcap

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Other times the cat would run off to the hunting grounds, either the swamps or the Astroni, and when the hunters shot down an oriole or a great tit or a blackcap [translating capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.

2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, II.4:

black-capped chickadee
black-capped chickadee

(obsolete, UK, US, dialectal) Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).


dewberry

Rubus caesius
Rubus caesius#Translingual

Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.

American dewberry, species of Rubus sect. Flagellares

The purple to black berries of these plants.


olallieberry

From Chinook Jargon olallie ("berry"), probably from Lower Chinook úlali ("camas patch"), from úlal ("camas") + -i, a deictic suffix; + berry.

A hybrid berry with a tart taste created by crossing a loganberry and a youngberry.


boysenberry

/ˈbɔɪzn̩ˌbɛɹi/

From Boysen + berry, named after its creator Rudolph Boysen.

A hybrid berry created from crossing blackberry, red raspberry, and loganberry.


marionberry

Named for Marion County, Oregon, where it was developed, + berry.

A member of the blackberry family, a cross between the Chehalem berry and olallieberry blackberries.


whitebark raspberry

en-noun

whitebark raspberry (plural whitebark raspberries)

A deciduous, viny shrub (Rubus leucodermis) with a pale, whitish bark.


blackcap raspberry

blackcap raspberry (plural blackcap raspberries)


salmonberry

From salmon + berry, since they were traditionally eaten with salmon by indigenous peoples.

A bush, Rubus spectabilis, found on the Pacific coast of North America.


batology

From Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “blackberry”) + -ology.

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[…]more than another that has always been clearly recognized by British botanists, it is R. leucostachys, in spite of the various forms, which, before they were detected as hybrids, were often a puzzle to our predecessors in British batology.

1905, Berthold Seemann, editor, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign, volume 43, page 202:

Further knowledge of Rubus plant geography is steadily emerging, particular[ly] as co-workers such as D. Grant and T. Schofield are also contributing substantially to Yorkshire batology.

1999, The Naturalist, volumes 124-127, page 112:

In Species Plantarum, in 1753, Linnaeus identified two European species of Rubus within the large five-petaled family Rosa, thus beginning one of taxonomy′s largest studies — batology.

2005, Lisa Robertson, “Rubus Armeniacus: A Common Architectural Decorative Motif in the Temperate Mesophytic Region”, in Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, page 125:

(botany) The scientific study of plants in the genus Rubus, commonly known as brambles.


black raspberry

en-noun

black raspberry (countable and uncountable, plural black raspberries)

A plant belonging to either of two closely related species, Rubus leucodermis or Rubus occidentalis, both native to North America.


bakeapple

Supposedly from French baie, qu'appelle which roughly translates as "what's the name of that berry". This is very liably folk etymology, though—the more obvious derivation bake + apple, influenced by bake in composite words, is suggested by the Oxford English Dictionary.

(Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus


youngberry

From Young + berry, named for its cultivator, Byrnes M. Young.

A hybrid between a blackberry and a dewberry of the rose family, first cultivated in the western United States.


thimbleberry

Rubus parviflorus, a species of Rubus, native to western and northern North America, from Alaska east to Ontario and Minnesota, and south to northern Mexico.


wineberry

From Middle English wynberie, wynberie (“a grape or some other kind of berry”), from Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīnabaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *wīnabasją (“wineberry; grape”), equivalent to wine + berry. Doublet of whimberry (“bilberry”).
Cognate with Dutch wijnbeer, West Frisian wynbei (“grape”), wiemer (“currant”), German Weinbeere (“grape”), Swedish vinbär (“currant”), Icelandic vínber (“grape”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

inh

The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.


arctic raspberry

en-noun

arctic raspberry (plural arctic raspberries)

A species of slow-growing bramble belonging to the rose family and bearing a dark red, sweet fruit; Rubus arcticus, native to arctic, subarctic, and alpine regions.


raspberrying

The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.

1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347:

Sitting down is the secret of good raspberrying. It is also easier on your pants and nerves, by the way. Raspberries call for a sitting posture.

1944, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Mainstays of Maine, The Macmillan Company, published 1944, page 88:

During July and August, church, Sunday School, and prayer meeting returned, and there were strawberrying, swimming, the Pondlily Walk, blueberrying, raspberrying, blackberrying, […]

1957, Lura Beam, A Maine Hamlet, Yankee Books, page 138:


tayberry

From Tay + berry, after the River Tay in Scotland.

A cultivated shrub of the genus Rubus fruticosus x idaeus, a cross between the blackberry (R. fruiticosus) and raspberry (R. idaeus).

Taybeere

cross between the blackberry and raspberry


brambleberry

From Middle English brymbyll bery, from Old English brǣmelberġe, from Proto-West Germanic *brāmilabaʀi, equivalent to bramble + berry.


hindberry

From Middle English *hindberie, from Old English hindberie, hindberġe, hindberiġe, equivalent to hind + berry. Compare Dutch hennebes, hinnebes, German Himbeere, Danish hindbær.

[…] they made considerable progress in the art of embalming the wild fruits of their native land, so that they might command cranberries and hindberries at all times and seasons.

1834, The Hobart Town Magazine, volume 2, page 323:


veitchberry

From Veitch + berry, from the surname of the men who raised it.

A form of loganberry: specifically, a cross between R. fruticosus and R. idaeus.


knotberry

From knot + berry, because of its knotted stems.

(archaic) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus.


Douglas berry

Rubus ursinus, a blackberry or dewberry species and its fruit.


Pacific dewberry

Pacific dewberry (plural Pacific dewberries)


Pacific blackberry

Pacific blackberry (plural Pacific blackberries)


California dewberry

California dewberry (plural California dewberries)


California blackberry

California blackberry (plural California blackberries)


Santiam berry

California blackberry
California blackberry

A California blackberry and loganberry hybrid berry plant and its fruit

mora santiam

a California blackberry and loganberry hybrid berry plant and its fruit


Chehalem blackberry

Chehalem blackberry (plural Chehalem blackberries)


Himalayan blackberry

Himalayan blackberry (plural Himalayan blackberries)

Rubus armeniacus, a blackberry species native to West Asia


Armenian blackberry

Armenian blackberry (plural Armenian blackberries)

Himalayan blackberry
Himalayan blackberry#English


Chehalem berry

Chehalem berry (plural Chehalem berries)

Himalayan blackberry
Himalayan blackberry

A Himalayan blackberry and Santiam berry hybrid berry plant and its fruit


tummelberry

From Tummel + berry, after the river in Scotland.

A hybrid fruit resembling a large raspberry.


bush lawyer

Any of the species of climbing blackberry plants in subgenus Rubus subg. Micranthobatus, found in New Zealand.


brierberry

/ˈbɹaɪə(ɹ)ˌbɛɹi/

a prickly bush found in the eastern United States, Rubus cuneifolius


bramberry

From Middle English bramber, brember, from Old English brēmber, from Proto-West Germanic *brāmabaʀi. Doublet of frambesia and framboise. Cognate with German Brombeere. Related with bramble, brambleberry.

Ellagic acid is the most abundant phenolic compound in cloudberry and red bramberry (Häkkinen et al. 1999). In red berries the major flavonol group present is the anthocyanins.

2010, Kjell Nilsson, Marcus Sangster, Christos Gallis, Forests, Trees and Human Health:


Young dewberry

Young dewberry (plural Young dewberries)


canefruit

canefruit (countable and uncountable, plural canefruits)

Fruit grown on canes, such as raspberries and blackberries.


kotataberry

Duyck was a farmer who grew the kotataberry, you see, which no one's ever heard of. And Duyck thought if we named the marionberry the state fruit, no one would ever hear of the kotataberry ever again.

2017 February 14, Matthew Korfhage, “Oregon Legislature Finally Introduces Bill to Make Marionberry Pie the State Pie”, in Willamette Week:

There’s nothing like picking plump, sun-warmed fruit (one for the bucket, one for you) and at this iconic Whakatāne attraction, you can do just that. Strawberries, blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries and blueberries are on offer as well as Ranui berries and kotataberries.

2020 December 12, Sharon Stephenson, “Three of the best 'pick your own' fruit farms”, in Stuff:

A blackberry cultivar developed in Oregon, United States, having small to medium-sized berries of a purple-black color and longish shape.


Enslen's blackberry

Enslen's blackberry (plural Enslen's blackberries)

Enslen's dewberry
Enslen's dewberry#English


Enslen's dewberry

Enslen's dewberry (plural Enslen's dewberries)

Named after the botanist Aloysius Enslen.


balloon berry

strawberry raspberry
strawberry raspberry#English


strawberry raspberry

strawberry raspberry (plural strawberry raspberries)

A red-fruited plant of species Rubus illecebrosus.


averin

(Scotland) cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus.

(Scotland) cloudberry, fruit of Rubus chamaemorus.


bokbunja

A Korean raspberry bush (Rubus crataegifolius)