boysenberry bush

7.4

A bush that produces large dark red berries that taste like raspberries

noun
/ˈbɔɪzənˌbɛri bʌʃ/

: arbusto de mora de boysen

The boysenberry bush in our backyard produces large, dark wine-red fruit during summer.

Examples

The boysenberry bush in our backyard produces fruit every summer.
She pruned the old boysenberry bush to encourage new growth in the spring.
Gardeners often train a boysenberry bush along a trellis for better support and sun exposure.
The boysenberry bush is thriving in my garden.
Have you ever tasted a boysenberry bush fruit?
Gardeners often train a boysenberry bush along a trellis for better support and sun exposure.
She pruned the old boysenberry bush to encourage new growth and more abundant fruit.

Surface Forms

boysenberry bush singular

boysenberry bushes plural

Morphology

boysenberry + bush

The meaning is directly compositional: 'boysenberry' names a type of berry and 'bush' names a small woody plant, so a 'boysenberry bush' is simply a bush that produces boysenberries. This noun+noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic plant/fruit naming pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the two constituents.

Etymology

Boysenberry bush comes from a gardener named Rudolph Boysen, who made a new berry by crossing several kinds of berries. People grew his plants as a bush and called the fruit the boysenberry, so today a boysenberry bush means 'a bush that grows large dark boysenberries'.