loganberry

[ loh-guhn-ber-ee ]

noun

, plural lo·gan·ber·ries.

1. the large, dark-red, acid fruit of a plant, Rubus ursinus loganobaccus.
2. the plant itself.

loganberry

/ -brɪ; ˈləʊɡənbərɪ /

noun

1. a trailing prickly hybrid rosaceous plant, Rubus loganobaccus , cultivated for its edible fruit: probably a hybrid between an American blackberry and a raspberry
2. 1. the purplish-red acid fruit of this plant
   2. ( as modifier )

      loganberry pie

Word History and Origins

Origin of loganberry¹

1890–95, Americanism; named after James H. Logan (1841–1928), American horticulturist who first bred it; berry

Word History and Origins

Origin of loganberry¹

C19: named after James H. Logan (1841–1928), American judge and horticulturist who first grew it (1881)

Example Sentences

Harriett Logan has a dozen employees at her Cleveland bookstore, Loganberry Books.

From Washington Post

Founded in 1904, Greenbank Farm was once the U.S.’s largest loganberry producer, which later helped popularize loganberry wine.

From Seattle Times

A clue to her perspective comes from Sarah Willis, a novelist and the fiction buyer at Loganberry Books in Cleveland who has known Umrigar for nearly 20 years.

From Los Angeles Times

One such spot is the 150-acre Greenbank Farm, a former loganberry farm acquired by Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in the 1970s and saved from development by community leaders and investors.

From Seattle Times

Yes, those extraordinary breakfasts, of bacon and orange-yolked eggs and brown bread and smoked fish, the ambrosial loganberry jam, the butter weeping with freshness, still torment me, like a dream whose fleecy shreds one cannot reassemble.

From The New Yorker