wild raspberry
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- noun
- /waɪld ˈræspbəri/
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frambuesa silvestre
- As I reach this place on the trail, my eye rises above a feathery late-summer tangle of wild raspberry, cow parsnip, and mountain hollyhock.
- pick wild raspberries
Examples
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During our hike, we found a patch of wild raspberries that were sweet and ripe for picking.
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A small town in Indiana, rambling along the railroad tracks, looking for wild raspberries.
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Primroses and wild raspberries clustered in the marginal patches of sun.
Fiction book (1999) -
Pughe said that the workers have started noticing vegetation growing back, including wild raspberries and tree saplings.
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She spent the afternoon enjoying a bowl of freshly picked wild raspberries in the sunshine.
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While walking through the forest, he stumbled upon wild raspberries growing near a stream.
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 woody bush that grows small edible berries on prickly stems
A raspberry plant from Europe and northern Asia that produces edible red or orange fruit
A bush from Europe that makes red or orange berries you can eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a raspberry plant that grows naturally' is directly and compositionally derived from 'wild' (living naturally/not cultivated) + 'raspberry' (the fruit/plant). This straightforward adjective+noun combination follows common English and cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Wild raspberry comes from the simple image of a raspberry plant growing 'wild' in the fields or woods instead of in a garden, and people would pick the bright fruit by hand. That's why the name means a raspberry that grows naturally and is gathered rather than planted.