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salmonberry † 

• n. the red-flowered raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of western North America; also, the berries of this shrub.

  See also: olallie  

  • 1884  Right on the top of this moss there is . . . the wild strawberry, raspberry, salmon berry, cranberry.
  • 1888  (1890)  . . . salmon-berries, blueberries, and cranberries . . . are what attract the bears.
  • 1954  One informant's account . . . tells how a trading-ship gave the Lummi a keg of rum; the Lummi poured it over a great feast-dish filled with salmonberries and ate the rum-soaked berries with their spoons.
  • 1960  The Victoria Natural History Society delightedly announced that a few lucky members had spied . . . sturdy buds of salmonberry. . . .