boysenberry

boysenberry
/boy"zeuhn ber'ee, -seuhn-/, n., pl. boysenberries.
a blackberrylike fruit with a flavor similar to that of raspberries, developed by crossing various plants of the genus Rubus.
[1930-35; named after R. Boysen, 20th-century American botanist, who bred it]

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Very large bramble fruit, usually considered, along with the loganberry and the youngberry, a variety of blackberry (Rubus ursinus).

The dark, reddish-black fruit is especially valued for canning and preserving. It is grown chiefly in the southern and southwestern U.S. and on the Pacific Coast from southern California into Oregon. It was developed in the early 1920s by Rudolph Boysen (1895–1950) of Napa, Cal.

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      a very large bramble fruit, usually considered, along with the loganberry and the youngberry, a variety of blackberry (Rubus ursinus). The dark, reddish black fruit is especially valued for canning and preserving. It is grown chiefly in the United States, in the South and Southwest and on the Pacific Coast from southern California into Oregon.

      The boysenberry was developed in the early 1920s by Rudolph Boysen (1895–1950) of Napa, Calif., who later turned it over to Walter Knott for commercial development (see Knott, Walter; and Knott, Cordelia (Knott's Berry Farm)).

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