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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A hybrid berry created from crossing blackberry, red raspberry, and loganberry.

   "Like all caneberries, boysenberries are an etaerio or aggregate fruit containing several drupelets."

2. 2
   large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries wordnet
3. 3
   cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   A colour of the purple colour spectrum, based on the same fruit's colour, whose hexadecimal code is #873260, RGB is rgb(135, 50, 96), CMYK is (63%, 29%, 47%) and HSL is hsl(328°, 46%, 36%). not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms

boysenberry bush

Example

More examples

"Like all caneberries, boysenberries are an etaerio or aggregate fruit containing several drupelets."

Etymology

From Boysen + berry, named after its creator Rudolph Boysen.

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