RUBUS
- a plant of the rose family [n RUBUS]
- (Latin) a genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry [n RUBUS or RUBUSES]
- any of a genus (Rubus) of plants (as a blackberry or a raspberry) of the rose family with leaves that typically have three to seven leaflets or that are simple and lobed, white or pink flowers, usually prickly stems, and a mass of carpels ripening into an aggregate fruit composed of many drupelets