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- noun Plural form of
Bosc .
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Examples
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That proximity has allowed local growers to market smaller Bartletts, which don't take as much year-round work to grow, rather than focusing on producing D'Anjous, Boscs or larger Bartletts.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Ontarians didn't seem to care much about the minutiae of winemaking, the Boscs say, and many thought "good Canadian wine" something of an oxymoron.
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Its costs are beginning to rise precipitously as the new grapes expand from a single vine each to blocks of eight and then 27 vines, but the Boscs are hoping to get government grants to lighten the burden.
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By the early 1990s, the Boscs were dabbling in genetic engineering as a way to mitigate the potentially crippling effects of especially harsh Ontario winters on their mostly European-bred stock, infusing the grapes with genes they hoped would make them stronger.
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