bearberry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
bearberry (plural bearberries)
- Any of three dwarf shrubs of the genus Arctostaphylos, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
- 1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter, published 2005, page 26:
- Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.
- Arbutus menziesii.
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the genus Arctostaphylos
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the species Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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Further reading[edit]
bearberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Arctostaphylos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Arctostaphylos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- bearberry at USDA Plants database