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flowering raspberry
noun
- a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of flowering raspberry1
First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences
The purple-flowering raspberry is acid and insipid; it can hardly be called edible, though it is not poisonous.
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Our purple-flowering raspberry has no prickles, and thrives as well as any.
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