Raspberry Meaning
/ˈɹɑːzb(ə)ɹi/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe plant Rubus idaeus.
nounAny of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
Sentence Examples
The tayberry is a cultivated cross between a blackberry and a raspberry.
So I'm telling Caroline: "Gooseberry jam is better than raspberry." But she's just like "Nope."
Raspberry jam on toast is my favorite breakfast meal.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We found a ripe ____ growing on a small bush in the backyard.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She picked a handful of ripe ____ from the canes and ate them straight from the garden.
Word Origin & History
From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It’s a gorgeous ice cream dream…a generous roll of vanilla shaped like a log…sprinkled with toasted pecan nuts…and filled with an egg-shaped center of the raspberriest raspberry ice cream ever!"
— 1941 April 10, Elsie, the Borden Cow [pseudonym], “Good Moos”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number 86, Chicago, Ill., page 21:
"Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes even raspberrier."
— 1979 June, Jell-O, “Now there’s even more magic in a Jell-O® Gelatin Rainbow Cake”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 57, number 6, Des Moines, Ia.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, page 135:
"Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around."
— 1999 June/July, “Contents”, in Garden Design, volume 18, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Meigher Communications, →ISSN, page 9:
"Apparently, yellow raspberries are no more difficult to grow than red or black, but are deemed a specialty item because only a handful of growers are producing them. […] I have heard, however, that they are sweeter and a little less raspberrier than the red ones, so maybe I might like them."
— 2009 July 29, Chris Stevens, “Berry my heart”, in The Daily Item, volume 131, number 198, Lynn, Mass., page B2, column 1:
"To get raspberries that taste “raspberrier,” and blueberries that taste “bluer” buy produce that’s locally grown, in season, and hasn’t been sitting on the shelf too long, or visit any of the “you-pick-it-yourself” farms for seasonal produce."
— 2011, Ann A. Rosenstein, “Organic, Conventional and Local foods”, in Diet Myths Busted: Food Facts, Not Nutrition Fiction, Enumclaw, Wash.: Idyll Arbor, Inc., →ISBN, page 244:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We found a ripe ____ growing on a small bush in the backyard.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She picked a handful of ripe ____ from the canes and ate them straight from the garden.