loganberry
Americannoun
plural
loganberries-
the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
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the plant itself.
noun
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a trailing prickly hybrid rosaceous plant, Rubus loganobaccus , cultivated for its edible fruit: probably a hybrid between an American blackberry and a raspberry
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the purplish-red acid fruit of this plant
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( as modifier )
loganberry pie
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Etymology
Origin of loganberry
1890–95, named after James H. Logan (1841–1928), American horticulturist who first bred it; see berry
Example Sentences
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At the World’s Fair, Erickson befriended famed horticulturist Luther Burbank, whose inventions included the crimson Phenomenal berry, a blackberry-raspberry cross similar to a loganberry.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2017
And are they that much better than other berries still, outreigning the seedy boysenberry or the loganberry?
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2017
They are lighting their fire with invasive species including the New Zealand Christmas Tree, loganberry and other alien plants.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2012
Sometimes the whole show was included in the dollar-odd price of admission, right along with the exhibition barns and the competition sheds full of fancy needlework and loganberry jam.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carl, my dear, aren’t there one or two more bottles of loganberry down in the stream?”
From Jane Lends A Hand by Watkins, Shirley
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