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flowering raspberry

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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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Origin of flowering raspberry

First recorded in 1805–15

Words nearby flowering raspberry

flowering flax, flowering maple, flowering moss, flowering plant, flowering quince, flowering raspberry, flowering tobacco, flowering wintergreen, flowerless, flowerlet, flowerlike
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How to use flowering raspberry in a sentence

  • The purple-flowering raspberry is acid and insipid; it can hardly be called edible, though it is not poisonous.

    On the Trail|Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard

  • Our purple-flowering raspberry has no prickles, and thrives as well as any.

    Under the Maples|John Burroughs
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