raspberry bush
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- noun
- /ˈræzˌbɛri bʌʃ/
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- And her raspberry bushes yielded fruit, not too tart, not too sweet, and of a flavor, Bo said, that was out of this world.
Examples
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The gardener planted several new raspberry bushes to increase the berry harvest this season.
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Looks around and sees a raspberry bush.
Academic text (2011) -
The raspberry bushes were bare.
Fiction book (1990) -
The boy grabbed the milk buckets and ran to the raspberry bushes.
Fiction book (1990) -
He passed the snowy hump of a black raspberry bush and another.
Fiction book (1997) -
As if in reply, the birds warbled and chirped from the trees and raspberry bushes.
Fiction book (1992) -
The sprinkler trained to the petrified bed beneath it has no effect: water runs through the matted raspberry bushes, fanning into deltas over the baked lawn.
Fiction book (1992) -
In the summer, we picked fresh raspberries from the raspberry bush in our backyard.
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After the rain, the raspberry bush was heavy with juicy red berries ready for picking.
Synonyms
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A small soft red fruit that grows on a bush
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A bush or its small soft red fruit that people eat
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A plant that grows naturally and makes small red or orange berries you can eat
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A small black fruit with many little round parts that you can eat
A North American raspberry plant that makes small sweet red fruits you can eat
A North American raspberry plant that makes sweet red berries
A bush native to North America that produces small red berries you can eat
A bush from Europe that makes red or orange berries you can eat
A type of raspberry plant from eastern North America with small black fruit shaped like thimbles
A small bush with red berries like raspberries that people eat or make into jam
A small bush from China and Japan with bright red sour berries
A bush with bright pink or purple flowers and small red fruit like a tiny cup
A small bush with purple flowers and red fruit you can eat
A bush from eastern North America with purple flowers and red to orange cup-shaped fruit
A large raspberry bush from western North America with pinkish orange berries
A wild raspberry bush from western North America and Mexico with white flowers and small orange berries shaped like thimbles
How Prickly
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound meaning — a bush that produces raspberries — is directly and predictably derived from combining 'raspberry' (the fruit/plant) with 'bush' (a small woody plant). This simple modifier + head noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English noun-compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Raspberry bush is a name for a bush that grows raspberries and often has prickly stems, so it simply means 'a woody plant that produces raspberries'.