单词 | veitchberry |
释义 | veitchberryn. A cultivated variety of bramble (genus Rubus) produced by crossing a blackberry and a raspberry; a plant of this variety; the fruit of such a plant, which resembles a large reddish blackberry. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > service-berry or shadbush service1785 saskatoon1802 service-berry1805 Juneberry1810 shad-blossoma1817 shad-flower1817 shad-bush1818 grape-pear1840 service tree1844 shad-blow1846 saskatoon berry1887 veitchberry1913 Indian pear1956 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > blackberry > types of dewberry1578 Norway berry1674 roebuckberry1771 loganberry1893 veitchberry1913 Young dewberry1925 youngberry1927 boysenberry1935 marionberry1987 1913 Garden 16 Aug. 416/2 Also a new Blackberry-Raspberry hybrid known as the Veitch Berry, with a decided Blackberry flavour and of exceptional size. 1925 Daily News 26 Aug. 3/2 (caption) The veitchberry compared with the size of a halfpenny. 1956 Good Housek. Home Encycl. (ed. 4) 118/1 Plant..veitchberries and wineberries 6 feet apart. 1980 Amateur Gardening 25 Oct. 20/1 Other hybrid berries..include the boysenberry, with large fruits but darker than a Loganberry, the Veitchberry and the Youngberry. 2007 C. Foley Allotment Handbk. (new ed.) vi. 161/1 The resulting hybrids—loganberry, tayberry, boysenberry, tummelberry, veitchberry, youngberry, sunberry, dewberry and Japanese wineberry—are usually earlier, sweeter and less rampant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1913 |
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