loganberry
Americannoun
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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
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Founded in 1904, Greenbank Farm was once the U.S.’s largest loganberry producer, which later helped popularize loganberry wine.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
And are they that much better than other berries still, outreigning the seedy boysenberry or the loganberry?
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2017
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
What would be your method of procedure for the following work: cornbread, blueberry cobbler with whipped cream, fruit gelatine, nut cake, loganberry pie?
From Time Magazine Archive
I forgot about the hateful metallic clink of steel things against an instrument-tray, and about the loganberry pimple on the nose of the red-headed surgical nurse who’d been sent into the labor room to help.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
Raspberries have been crossed with other brambles to get boysenberries, loganberries and tayberries.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
He grew loganberries, and picked apples and pears from old trees on the property.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Although strawberries are more commonly used, other fruits such as raspberries, blackberries, loganberries, peaches, bananas, and oranges, and even stewed, dried or canned fruits can be substituted and make delicious shortcakes.
From The New Dr. Price Cookbook by Royal baking powder company, New York
Blackberries, elderberries and loganberries make delicious juices and shrubs for summer beverages.
From Every Step in Canning by Gray, Grace Viall
Therefore, in the recipes given for these two kinds of berries, loganberries may be substituted whenever they can be obtained.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
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