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bearberry
[ bair-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]
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.
- any of several other plants, as some species of cranberry.
bearberry
/ ˈbɛəbərɪ /
noun
- a trailing evergreen ericaceous shrub, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi , with small pinkish-white flowers, red berries, and astringent leaves
- alpine bearberryalpine bearberryblack bearberry a related species, A. alpina of European mountains, having black berries
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Example Sentences
Arctostaphylos (bearberry) and Andromeda are arctic and alpine genera occurring in Britain.
Uva Ursi (Bearberry Leaves), leaves of red whortleberry, and others.
Etienne was some distance away gathering bearberry leaves to dry and mix with his smoking tobacco to make kinni-kinnik.
There they dined on blueberries, and slept on thick beds of moss and low growing blueberry and bearberry plants.
He was out of tobacco, but used bearberry leaves and willow bark in his pipe.
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