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RASPBERRY
The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and another similar brambles; as, the black, the red and the white raspberry.
The shrubbearingthis fruit.
Technically, raspberries are those brambles in which the fruit separates readily from the core or receptacle, in this differing from the blackberries, in which the fruit is firmly attached to the receptacle.
Origin: From E. Rasp, in allusion to the apparent roughness of the fruit.
Source: Websters Vocabulary