veitchberryn.
/ˈviːtʃb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈvitʃˌbɛri/ 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.
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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).
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