Rocky Mountain flowering raspberry

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noun

a shrub, Rubus deliciosus, of Colorado, having large white flowers and purple fruit.

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Also called boulder raspberry, Rocky Mountain raspberry.

Words nearby Rocky Mountain flowering raspberry

rocky, Rocky Hill, Rocky Mount, Rocky Mountain beeplant, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain flowering raspberry, Rocky Mountain goat, Rocky Mountain juniper, Rocky Mountain locust, Rocky Mountain National Park, Rocky Mountain oyster

How to use Rocky Mountain flowering raspberry in a sentence

Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.
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Also in Germany, he made The Mountain Eagle, which was set, Hitchcock recalled, “in Old Kentucky, wherever that might be.”
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Cadets mimicked his commands, which he issued in drawn-out syllables in his high-pitched, mountain-inflected voice.
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There were rumors that Schmidt was motivated by buried treasure or another secret of the mountain, but they were never proven.
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Then, he set to work building a shortcut that would take the minable minerals he found through the mountain.
The Mole Man’s Tunnel to Nowhere|Nina Strochlic|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
As he was toiling slowly up a narrow, rocky pass, he suddenly saw an Indian's head peering over the ledge.
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The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
These residents then killed the parish priest, and without arms fled for safety to the mountain ravines.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
We came down the rest of the mountain more carefully, though still a great deal too fast.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley