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.
Example Sentences
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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
We wore our rubber boots everywhere and carried 5-gallon buckets up the creek beds, picking fat, ripe salmonberries to help our mom make jam, pies and wine.
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
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
