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# raspberry

«raspberry» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, soft, red fruit made of tiny round parts, that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a raspberry, raspberries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A raspberry is a small, soft, red fruit made of tiny round parts, that grows on a bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#m1)

2) (informal) To blow a raspberry is to stick out your tongue and blow, making a rude noise like a fart; US also «Bronx cheer». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and food lessons raspberries are a summer fruit, good in jam and desserts. In science they are an example of a fruit with many seeds. With babies and children, blowing a raspberry is a silly, cheeky game or a rude way of showing you don't like something. Phrases: «raspberry jam», «blow a raspberry».

### examples

- We picked raspberries in Grandma's garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x1)
- I love raspberry jam on toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x2)
- A raspberry has tiny seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x3)
- The baby blew a raspberry and laughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x4)
- He blew a raspberry at his sister, which was rude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x5)
- A punnet holds 150 grams of raspberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x6)
- Raspberry ripple ice cream is my favourite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x7)
- Raspberries can be red, yellow or black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x8)
- There were plenty of bilberries and elder berries, but no raspberries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/#x9)

### note

Silent «p»: RAHZ-bree (UK) or RAZ-berry (US). Plural: raspberries. Blowing a raspberry at people is cheeky or rude.

### In the corpora

- [une fraise is a strawberry, une framboise is a raspberry and une myrtille is a blueberry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/18-food-and-drink/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «raspberry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raspberry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.