olallieberry

[ ol-uh-lee-ber-ee ]

noun

, plural ol·al·lie·ber·ries.

1. a blackberry that is a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, cultivated in California and Oregon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of olallieberry¹

olallie < Chinook Jargon: berries < Lower Chinook úlali ( ú-lalx camass + -ix deictic suffix, indicating a patch or region of something) + berry

Example Sentences

For lunch that day, we visited Linn’s, a family-owned restaurant known for its olallieberry pie.

From Washington Post