youngberry

youngberry
/yung"ber'ee, -beuh ree/, n., pl. youngberries. Hort.
a blackberry that is a cultivated variety of Rubus ursinus of the southwestern U.S.
[1930-35; named after B. M. Young, U.S. hybridizer, who developed it c1900]

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  • youngberry — noun Etymology: B. M. Young fl1905 American fruit grower Date: 1927 the large sweet reddish black fruit of a cultivar of a bramble closely related to the boysenberry and loganberry and grown in the western and southern United States; also a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • youngberry — noun (plural youngberries) a bramble of a variety which bears large edible reddish black fruit, believed to be a hybrid of the dewberry. Origin 1920s: named after the American horticulturalist B. M. Young …   English new terms dictionary

  • youngberry — young•ber•ry [[t]ˈyʌŋˌbɛr i, bə ri[/t]] n. pl. ries 1) pln a large, sweet, purple berry that is a cultivated cross between a blackberry and a dewberry 2) pln the trailing bush bearing this berry • Etymology: 1930–35; after B. M. Young, U.S.… …   From formal English to slang

  • youngberry — /ˈjʌŋbəri/ (say yungbuhree), / bri/ (say bree) noun (plural youngberries) the large, dark purple, sweet fruit of a trailing blackberry in the south western US, a cross between several blackberries. {named after BM Young, 20th century US… …  

  • youngberry — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ see berry noun Etymology: after B. M. Young fl 1900 American fruit grower who developed it : the large sweet reddish black fruit of a hybrid between a trailing blackberry and a southern dewberry grown in western and southern United States; …   Useful english dictionary

  • Rubus ursinus cv. Young — Youngberry, Yongberi o Zarza de Young es un híbrido entre la zarzamora y la zarza pajarera ambos miembros del genus rubus de la familia de las rosas. Historia Su origen es del occidente de los Estados Unidos y fueron hibridizados por Byrnes M.… …   Wikipedia Español

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