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raspis

raspis noun: a raspberry.

Noun

raspis (plural raspises)

  1. (obsolete) a raspberry
    • And men themselves contented well with plaine and simple foode, That on the earth by natures gift without their travell stoode, Did live by raspis ...1567, Arthur Golding, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled metamorphosis
    • It were good to keepe some of the juyce of raspis-berries in some wooden vessel, and to make it, as it were, raspis wine.1597, William Langham, The Garden of Health

Forms of raspis

pluralraspises
alternative formraspice

Questions about raspis

What does raspis mean?
Raspis means a raspberry.
What part of speech is raspis?
Raspis is a noun.
What is the plural of raspis?
The plural of raspis is raspises.

Words near raspis in the dictionary

  1. rasping machine
  2. rasping machines
  3. raspingly
  4. raspingness
  5. raspings
  6. raspis
  7. raspises
  8. raspish
  9. raspite
  10. rasplike
  11. rasps

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