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salmonberry

salmonberry

1 8.1
A bush with small orange or red berries that you can eat, like raspberries
  • noun
  • /ˈsælmənˌbɛri/
  • US
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  • During our hike, we found a bush full of ripe salmonberries ready to be picked.

Examples

  • Some days, Shining Agate would boil the stew meat with salmonberry leaves, making it bitter and sour, but Left Hand would only flatter the taste.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Also come the thimbleberry, salmonberry, elderberry.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • He set aside a bundle of dried salmonberry bark.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Berry pickers preferred salmonberries, but they also picked blue, black, cranberry, red, and crowberries.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Other wild fish strongholds include the North Fork of the Umpqua River and the Salmonberry River in Oregon, and the Bogachiel River on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The children enjoyed picking salmonberries along the trail during their summer outing.

  • I love making jam from salmonberries because of their sweet and tangy flavor.

Synonyms

salmon berry
vssalmonberry
  • US
8.1

A wild bush that grows small orange berries like raspberries

is the same plant but written as one word rather than two
Rubus parviflorus
vssalmonberry
  • Specialized
9.9

A wild raspberry bush from western North America and Mexico with white flowers and small orange berries shaped like thimbles

is a general shrub name that can include pink flowers and red berries

Surface Forms

salmonberry singular
salmonberries plural

Morphology

salmonberry = salmon + berry (transparent) = salmon + berry

A straightforward compound whose meaning ('a type of berry associated with salmon colour or name') can be directly inferred from its components.

Etymology

Salmonberry is a name made of the parts salmon and berry. The fruit is often 'pink-orange' like salmon and grows near the streams where salmon run, so the name helps you remember an edible berry that has a salmon-like colour and is found by salmon waters.