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The dictionary site didn't include information about why 'bramble fruit' had been so identified. There was some connection to a German word, but I've lost sight of the site.
It would make sense that bramble fruit is so described because of the perception of such fruit as growing in brambles, faldage.
I just like the term 'bramble fruit' because of its rural whimsical sound.
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bramble is the name of my wallpaper/bedlinens pattern (laura ashley) it is stylized blackberries (brambles and leaves, and berries and flowers!)
i would say a bramble is shrub, and raspberries, blackberries, boyenberryies, are the fruit of the same. and all these berrie have a similar structure--aggregate drupelets if you will
but cloud berries (i think) are more like cranberries..(or blue berries) these are not bramble fruits.. the berry is more like a small cherry (albeit with smaller pits)
they are a single berry stucture, not an aggrigate.
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Helen! How can anyone sleep comfortably on even the idea of thorns!  The only ref. I've ever seen to cloudberries was in a book where the main character went to...Norway, I think. His hostess served him cloudberries, which apparently are a great treat (which I would definitely not consider a bowl of cranberries to be!) and only in season for about one month. Don't really know what they are, though; have to look them up one of these days.
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Thanks for the link eta. Always meant to find out about cloudberries. I went on to look at some other links in an effore to find out just how big they were. Your link said three times the size of a strawberry, which seemed huge, though there are strawberries and strawberries! It took a long time and I found a lot of discrepancy but finally this seemingly scientific site gave illustrations and comments that put their size as from 25mm (abou 1") across down to about 2/3 of that size: http://www.uku.fi/northernberries/files/pdf/EliteClo.pdf
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Thanks, eta; that was quite a story.
According to A.E. Porsild (1953, Edible Plants of the Arctic.) Eskimos beat chewed caribou tallow with seal oil until it was fluffy then mixed in cloudberries to create a confection called "Eskimo Ice Cream."
I am suddenly very thankful that I live where and when I do.
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Etaerio...n.
So, etaeriated for the adjective?
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> A cluster of fruits formed from the unfused carpels you thinkin' what I'm thinkin...? No, probably not! 
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Possibly so, Mav'...
Back to 'etaereate' from tsuwm's link.
There are so many dictionaries online and so many words-a-day sources. tsuwm's worthlessness appeals to me because he addresses the possible worthlessness of words.
But in reading about the etaereates, the thought struck me that it would be fun, if one had the time and inclination, to have a lexicon of worthless words the definitions of which also contained rather rare words.
etaerio [edited] = an aggregate of drupelets
That's an ideal entry for such a dictionary.
And I do mean 'worthlessness' in the most affectionate application possible.
Oh, and etaereate spelled backwards is etaereate. Has anyone else noticed?
Well, no one could have noticed since I just made up the word...but it might exist. Must go googling...
Edit: Nope. Etaereate isn't on Google. Shoot. It is a very good word I just invented, and I plan to use it frequently, especially since it's such a lovely palindrupe.
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