marionberryn.
/ˈmarɪənˌbɛri/, U.S. /ˈmɛriənˌbɛri/ A large black berry produced by crossing loganberry and blackberry cultivars; the plant bearing this fruit.
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marionberry1987
1987 Independent 25 July 11/5 The loganberry..was raised by crossing a raspberry with a blackberry... The two fruits have been parents of the tayberry, the boysenberry, the marionberry and the sunberry.
1992 Food Entertaining Summer 50/2 Blueberries and bilberries are well known, but have you ever heard of, let alone tasted, tayberries (a raspberry-blackberry cross), tart jostaberries (bred from the blackcurrant and gooseberry), or the marionberry (tastes like a loganberry, but looks like a blackberry)?
1993 Washington Post 2 May (Mag. section) 9/1 Tourists are apt to do a double take inside Kay White's River Bend Country Store... ‘We joke with people that we've got Marion Barry in a bottle’, White says. What she means, of course is that she's got marionberry in a bottle—marionberry syrup, that is.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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