lingonberry
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Swedish lingon (“cowberry, lingonberry”) + berry.
Noun
[edit]lingonberry (plural lingonberries)
- A berry-bearing shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
- The berry of this shrub.
- Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, partridgeberry
- Coordinate terms: blueberry, cranberry
- 1998, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Nihilist (Peter Stormare):
- Ze lingonberry pancake!
Translations
[edit]shrub
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berry
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Further reading
[edit]- vaccinium vitis-idaea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vaccinium vitis-idaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies