Bosc
Encyclopedia
Bosc may refer to a type of pear
, the Bosc pear
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Bosc may also be used as a surname:
Pear
The pear is any of several tree species of genus Pyrus and also the name of the pomaceous fruit of these trees. Several species of pear are valued by humans for their edible fruit, but the fruit of other species is small, hard, and astringent....
, the Bosc pear
Bosc Pear
The Beurré Bosc or Bosc is a cultivar of the European Pear grown in the northwestern U.S. states of California, Washington, and Oregon; Australia; as well as in British Columbia, Ontario and Europe, where it is sometimes called Kaiser.Characteristic features are a long tapering neck and russeted...
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Bosc may also be used as a surname:
- Thomas BoscThomas BoscThomas Bosc is a French professional rugby league footballer for the Catalan Dragons of Super League...
, a rugby leagueRugby leagueRugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
player. - Louis Augustin Guillaume BoscLouis Augustin Guillaume BoscLouis Augustin Guillaume Bosc was a French botanist, invertebrate zoologist, and entomologist.-Biography:...
, a French botanist.