blackcap raspberry
- noun
- /ˈblækˌkæp ˈræspˌbɛri/
- US
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frambuesa negra
- She made homemade jam from freshly picked blackcap raspberries.
Examples
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Wild blackcap raspberry bushes grow along the edge of the forest near the lake.
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I love picking blackcap raspberries in the summer.
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The blackcap raspberry is valued for its distinctive flavor and color in desserts.
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The blackcap raspberry is a delicious fruit.
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She made homemade jam from freshly picked blackcap raspberries.
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The blackcap raspberry is valued for its distinctive flavor and color in desserts.
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Wild blackcap raspberry bushes grow along the edge of the forest near the lake.
Synonyms
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A small black fruit with many little round parts that you can eat
A type of raspberry plant from eastern North America with small black fruit shaped like thimbles
A wild raspberry plant that makes small black berries shaped like little cups
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun–noun compound where 'blackcap' functions as a modifier specifying a particular kind of 'raspberry', so the meaning (a raspberry of the blackcap type) is directly derivable from the constituents. Type-of compounds of this form are cross-linguistically common and follow regular composition patterns, making them immediately understandable to B1 learners who know both words.
Etymology
Blackcap raspberry may come from the look of the fruit: each small raspberry has a dark top that looks like a little 'cap' or hat, so people called it a blackcap. That's why the name means this kind of raspberry with dark, hat-like fruit.