Noun: thimbleberry
- Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
"The children's fingers were stained purple from picking thimbleberries";
- black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis
- White-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries
"The white flowers of the thimbleberry brightened the forest understory";
- salmonberry, Rubus parviflorus
Derived forms: thimbleberries
Type of: raspberry, raspberry bush
Encyclopedia: Thimbleberry