By Richard Nordquist. Definition: The use of one object or action (a symbol) to represent or suggest something else. Broadly, the term symbolism may refer to symbolic meaning or the practice of investing things with a symbolic meaning. See also: 1  Metaphor.
Cultivated raspberries are classified as red, black, purple, or yellow. 1  Red raspberries are by far the most common type grown in the United States. 2  Purple raspberries are fairly disease- and insect-resistant, and show some promise for the mountain and piedmont regions of North Carolina. more information...
The black raspberry is also closely related to the red raspberries Rubus idaeus and Rubus strigosus, sharing the distinctively white underside of the leaves and fruit that readily detaches from the carpel, but differing in the ripe fruit being black, and in the stems being more prickly.