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a raspberry that quit the supermarket to live wild and fall apart on contact
means A wild bramble shrub of the rose family bearing soft, broad red or salmon berries that crumble the instant you pick them.
from A plain English compound, joining 'thimble' and 'berry' — the name points to the berry's shape: a hollow, dome-like cap that slips off its core like a sewing thimble off a fingertip. 'Thimble' itself traces back to Old English 'þȳmel,' meaning a cover for the thumb, a cousin of 'thumb' (the extra 'b' crept into both words later, an English habit of padding 'm' with a silent 'b'). 'Berry' descends from Old English 'berie.' So the whole word is just two homely Germanic roots noting that this fruit, lifted free, is shaped like the little cap a tailor wears.
- too fragile
- collapses if you breathe near it, never sold commercially
- hollow cap
- slides off like a thimble, hence the name
- big leaves
- maple-shaped foliage doubles as wilderness toilet paper
- thornless
- a bramble that forgot to grow spines
- northern soul
- thrives around the Great Lakes and Pacific Northwest