salmonberry
Americannoun
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the salmon-colored, edible fruit of the bramble Rubus spectabilis, found on the west coast of North America: similar to a raspberry.
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the bramble Rubus spectabilis, which bears salmon-colored, edible fruit similar to raspberries: found on the west coast of North America.
noun
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a spineless raspberry bush, Rubus spectabilis, of North America, having reddish-purple flowers and large red or yellow edible fruits
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the fruit of this plant
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Origin of salmonberry
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Gagliardi says the garden also hosts early-spring plants such as salmonberry, skunk cabbage and red-flowering currant.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
Blackberries and salmonberry shrubs do not interfere with each other’s growth.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Popular flavors include salmonberry, tundra blueberry and low-bush cranberry.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2017
At low tide, it requires scrambling up a very steep and muddy trail through forest choked with spruce, alder, salal and salmonberry.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2014
While the youngest slept under giant ferns or drooping cedar, she filled brimming pails with the luscious fruit, salmonberry, dewberry or huckleberry in their seasons.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
Trillium flowers and salmonberries are the name of the game around here in the spring, while mushrooms grow in abundance in the fall.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
They recorded the density of blackberries and native salmonberries, a native shrub, along a creek for several years.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It mows down brush like salmonberries that attract smaller birds and chops down alders.
From Washington Times ● May 14, 2016
Before 1989, she and other children would play on the beach, picking salmonberries from bushes, prying gumboot chitons from rocks and digging clams.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2010
Where the trail hit the beach on Miller Bay—there was a wall of honeysuckle just past blossom, salmonberries hanging in among it and a few last wild roses blooming—Hatsue cut into the cedar woods.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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