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cowberry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cowberry has 2 senses
- cowberry(n = noun.plant) foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, vaccinium vitis-idaea - low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries; Array has parts: cowberry, lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry
- cowberry(n = noun.food) lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry - tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller; Array is a kind of berry
is a kind of cranberry
is a part of cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, vaccinium vitis-idaea
CIDE DICTIONARY
cowberry, n.
A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium Vitis-idæa ), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cowberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 an evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, bearing dark-red berries.
2 the berry of this plant.
1 an evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, bearing dark-red berries.
2 the berry of this plant.
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