nagoonberry

English

Etymology

From Tlingit neigóon.

Noun

nagoonberry (plural nagoonberries)

1. Synonym of arctic raspberry
   • 1994, Priscilla N. Russell, Ninilchik Plantlore:

     Nagoonberry's pink flowers develop into sweet, red fruit in late July and August.

   • 1995, Bighorn National Forest (N.F.), Tie Hack Dam and Reservoir: Draft Environmental Impact Statement:

     The loss of the nagoonberry population is distinctive since it means the loss of the only known occrnrence within the Bighorn Mountains.

   • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 6:

     When the smokejumpers had at last battled it to a standstill, 125,000 square acres of interior Alaskan scrub spruce, white spruce, paper birch, quaking aspen and balsam poplar had been laid waste, not to mention -- and what Kate grudged more -- countless lowbush and highbush cranberry, raspberry, salmonberry, lingonberry and nagoonberry stands.