noun pl. raspberries -·ries

1. the small, juicy, edible, aggregate fruit of various brambles (genus Rubus) of the rose family, consisting of a cluster of red, purple, or black drupelets
2. any plant bearing this fruit

3. Etymology: < rhyming slang raspberry tart, fart

   Slang a sound of derision, contempt, etc. made by expelling air forcibly so as to vibrate the tongue between the lips

Etymology: earlier raspis berry < rasp, raspis, raspberry (prob. same word as ME raspis, kind of wine) + berry