salmonberry
noun
the salmon-colored, edible fruit of the bramble Rubus spectabilis, found on the west coast of North America: similar to a raspberry.
salmonberries
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pluralof salmonberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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They recorded the density of blackberries and native salmonberries, a native shrub, along a creek for several years.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
July and August meant salmonberries; highbush blueberries; and small, sweet strawberries.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2020
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
The fresh and dried fish; the fat, oil, or meat from beaver, beluga, caribou, moose, oogruk, polar bear, and walrus; cranberries, salmonberries and wild rhubarb all had so far escaped contamination.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
