tayberry
tayberry Lexical Profile
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• noun
A sweet, dark-red edible fruit that is a cultivated cross between a blackberry and a red raspberry, characterized by its elongated shape, aromatic flavor, and core that remains inside the fruit when picked.
"She gathered a basket of ripe tayberries from the garden to make a tart, sweet summer jam."
The vigorously growing, thorny scrambling shrub of the rose family that bears the tayberry fruit, originally bred in Scotland.
"The gardener carefully trained the thorny tayberry canes along the wire trellis to ensure a bountiful harvest the following year."
• Rhymes for tayberry
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the late 1970s, named after the River Tay in Scotland, where the fruit was originally bred at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, combined with the word 'berry'.
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