boysenberry
boysenberry Lexical Profile
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• noun
A large, dark reddish-purple aggregate fruit that is a complex hybrid cross between a European raspberry, a European blackberry, an American dewberry, and a loganberry, renowned for its sweet and tart flavor.
"We picked a bucket of fresh boysenberries to bake a summer pie."
North American The trailing bramble plant of the rose family (genus Rubus) that produces the boysenberry fruit, native in its cultivation to California.
"The farmer trained the boysenberry vines along the wire trellis to keep the heavy fruit off the ground."
Word Origin & Etymology
Named after Californian horticulturist Rudolph Boysen, who bred the complex hybrid (crossing a blackberry, raspberry, dewberry, and loganberry) in the 1920s. It was later popularized commercially by Walter Knott at Knott's Berry Farm.
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