Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually prickly shrub that is a hybrid of a western North American blackberry (Rubus ursinus) and is cultivated for its edible, dark red to nearly black fruit.
- noun The fruit of this plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a raspberrylike flavor.
- noun a large raspberry-flavored bramble fruit; a cross between blackberries and raspberries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hybrid berry created from crossing ablackberry , redraspberry and aloganberry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries
- noun large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He still has 30ha in boysenberries, and sees the future in Asian markets with new products being launched in Japan such as boysenberry and vinegar breakfast drinks, boysenberry biscuits and boysenberry sweets.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By LAURA BASHAM 2010
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It gives a full range of fruit flavors, in this case, black cherry, cassis and boysenberry, as well as tannins that are round while retaining their power.
George Miliotes: Buy a Bottle of Wine, Help End Childhood Hunger George Miliotes 2011
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Any type of berry pie, strawberry, boysenberry are on the top of the list
Apples & Leaves Pie Top Cutter and a Giveaway! | Baking Bites 2009
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Probably boysenberry next, because noone really knows who boysen is and why they have a berry named after them.
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I shall be Autumn this Halloween, with leaf draped skirt, and folds of boysenberry velvet wine flowing to the ground.
Autumn Offering Judith A. Lawrence 2011
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It gives a full range of fruit flavors, in this case, black cherry, cassis and boysenberry, as well as tannins that are round while retaining their power.
George Miliotes: Buy a Bottle of Wine, Help End Childhood Hunger George Miliotes 2011
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What other courthouse in America sold candy apples and homemade boysenberry tarts?
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The vintage conditions also were difficult enough to produce a lot of wines with overt signs of overripeness - which not only produces undesirable aromatic and flavor combinations such as prunes, kirsch and boysenberry syrup, but also takes away from any expression of terroir and really muddies focus and precision on the palate.
Bordeaux 2009: all over but the pricing | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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It gives a full range of fruit flavors, in this case, black cherry, cassis and boysenberry, as well as tannins that are round while retaining their power.
George Miliotes: Buy a Bottle of Wine, Help End Childhood Hunger George Miliotes 2011
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I made some boysenberry and fennel-infused chamomile tea and stepped outside on the fire escape.
Sunny Gessy Alvarez 2012
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