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a fruit that's actually a gang of tiny fruits posing as one.
means A soft, sweet-tart red (or sometimes black or golden) berry made of many small juicy beads clustered around a hollow core, borne on a thorny cane.
from From earlier 'raspis berry,' though where 'raspis' itself came from is genuinely murky — it may relate to a Germanic word for the rough, rasping texture of the cane or the fruit's bumpy surface, or to an old wine called 'raspise.' The rude noise sense — blowing a 'raspberry' — comes from Cockney rhyming slang: 'raspberry tart' for 'fart,' shortened to just the fruit.
- botany
- Each bump is a separate fruit called a drupelet
- hollow core
- Picking leaves the core behind, unlike blackberries
- family ties
- Belongs to the rose family
- the noise
- Blowing a raspberry comes from Cockney rhyming slang
- color trickery
- Some varieties ripen black, purple, or gold
heritage raspberry — cultivar from uk with deep red color, grown commercially in scotland since 1840s
tulameen raspberry — canadian variety developed in british columbia, largest commercial red raspberry varietal
golden raspberry awards — annual ceremony since 1980 honoring worst films, held night before academy awards in hollywood