raspberry

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rasp=ber=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

raspberry, n. [From E. rasp, in allusion to the apparent roughness of the fruit.].

 The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idæus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.  [1913 Webster]
" 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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

raspberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a bramble, Rubus idaeus, having usu. red berries consisting of numerous drupels on a conical receptacle. b this berry.
2 any of various red colours.
3 colloq. a a sound made with the lips expressing dislike, derision, or disapproval (orig. raspberry tart, rhyming sl. = fart). b a show of strong disapproval (got a raspberry from the audience).

Idiom

raspberry-cane a raspberry plant. raspberry vinegar a kind of syrup made from raspberries.

Etymology

16th-c. rasp (now dial.) f. obs. raspis, of unkn. orig., + BERRY