bearberry
noun
any of several prostrate shrubs belonging to the genus Arctostaphylos, of the heath family, especially A. uva-ursi, having tonic, astringent leaves and bright-red berries.
bearberries
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pluralof bearberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The term “traditional tobacco” can refer to other indigenous plants that may not contain nicotine at all, including the dried leaves of bearberries and the bark from red and spotted willows.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 29, 2018
That night we camped at the foot of the volcano, in a meadow carpeted with yellow rhododendrons and crimson bearberries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The girls join their mothers in picking berries, which are plentiful and of great variety—raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, blueberries, gooseberries, swampberries, saskatoonberries, pembinaberries, pheasantberries, bearberries, and snakeberries.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming
The juice of bearberries gives them a bright red.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Arthur Henry Howard Heming
Yes, ma'am," said Asahel staring a little; — "there's red raspberries, and black raspberries, and low-bush blackberries and high blackberries, and huckleberries, and bearberries, and cranberries; besides nuts, and apples.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner
