from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A trailing, prickly plant (Rubus ursinus var. loganobaccus) developed in California possibly as a hybrid between a blackberry and a raspberry, cultivated for its edible fruit.
noun The tart red fruit of this plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun A dewberry-like plant said to be a hybrid between Rubus vitifolius (the dewberry of the Western States) and R. Idæus (the European raspberry).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A hybridberry, produced by crossing a raspberry with a blackberry, considered a species Rubus loganobaccus, a variety Rubus ursinus loganobaccus, or a nothospecies Rubus × loganobaccus.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun red-fruited bramble native from Oregon to Baja California
noun large red variety of the dewberry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After James Harvey Logan, (1841–1928), American jurist and horticulturist.]
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Named for the American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841-1928).
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Examples
An example of such fruit is the loganberry which is a cross between a red raspberry and a blackberry and retains many of the qualities of each.
Somehow we found space for a loganberry meringue mess, which was bright and fresh and bad for you, on account of all the cream and sugar, but in a good way.
Woods was certainly not keeping a low profile, not in a shirt Alliss described as "crushed loganberry", the kind of outré leisure wear perfect for the golf course but less suited to slipping unnoticed into the Marriott Renaissance with one of the leading lights in the world of one-handed entertainment.
Trying to gauge the baking time for Brittany sable biscuits (to go with a loganberry fool) at the same time as slow roasting a shoulder of lamb proved beyond my attention span.
The mornings have become colder, frosty even, and on Sunday I made Jo and Stevie porridge with a spoon of loganberry jam and milk before we started cooking.
And then one day, you got into a fight with the minstrel and even though you were favored with 3 to 1 odds, due to your size and sexy flaring nostrils, the minstrel somehow skewered you with a pickle fork and went on to be called Ewald The Fighting Minstrel, while I was left alone to put loganberry flowers on your pyre and swear that we would be together in Valhalla.
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