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boysenberry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun boysenberry has 2 senses
- boysenberry(n = noun.plant) boysenberry bush - cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries; Array has parts: boysenberry
- boysenberry(n = noun.food) Array - large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries; Array is a kind of berry
is a kind of rubus ursinus, western blackberry, western dewberry
is a part of boysenberry, boysenberry bush
CIDE DICTIONARY
boysenberry, n.
- a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor. [WordNet 1.5]
- a large raspberry-flavored bramble fruit; a cross between blackberries and raspberries. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
boysenberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a hybrid of several species of bramble.
2 the large red edible fruit of this plant.
1 a hybrid of several species of bramble.
2 the large red edible fruit of this plant.
Etymology
R. Boysen, 20th-c. Amer. horticulturalist
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