thimbleberry

Noun

• raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit

• white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries

• shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  black raspberry , blackcap , blackcap raspberry , Rubus occidentalis , salmonberry , salmon berry , Rubus parviflorus , flowering raspberry , purple-flowering raspberry , Rubus odoratus