Library / English Dictionary

BOYSENBERRY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("boysenberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

Holonyms ("boysenberry" is a part of...):

boysenberry; boysenberry bush (cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries

Synonyms:

boysenberry; boysenberry bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("boysenberry" is a kind of...):

Rubus ursinus; western blackberry; western dewberry (American blackberry with oblong black fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "boysenberry"):

boysenberry (large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries)

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