salmonberry
Americannoun
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salmonberries
plural
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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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A planting that includes huckleberry, salal and salmonberry provides a range of heights, textures and colors.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
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
He therefore was right joyous at this good omen of protection; and his heart grew big and swollen with hope, as the black salmonberry swells in a swamp in June.
From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by George Palmer Putnam
Succulent, peachy salmonberries and velvety thimbleberry bush fronds flank the entrance to the trail, blanketed in soft shade from the outstretched limbs of towering Western red cedar, Douglas fir and hemlock.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
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
Then as now, the Northwest Coast, thick with fruit and fruits de mer, was a gatherer’s paradise: wild strawberries, wild blueberries, soapberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, salmonberries; clams, cockles, mussels, oysters; flounder, hake, salmon.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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