bunchberry
noun
a dwarf dogwood, Cornus canadensis, bearing dense clusters of bright-red berries.
bunchberries
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pluralof bunchberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then in the pine woods there would be, she was sure, Star of Bethlehem, Solomon's Seal, the white spray of groundnuts and bunchberries.
From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
It, too, grows low on the ground, but the bunchberries are in close clusters at the top of the small plant where the leaves radiate.
From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard
He talked at random of brooks that start nowhere and go nowhere, save over white stones and past watercress; of thin ribbed ferns and of scarlet bunchberries.
From The Seventh Noon by Edmund Frederick
The "bunchberries" must just be ripening on the high ground—nestling scarlet and white amid their glossy leaves.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Close beneath her eyes was an exquisite tuft of pink bell-heather intergrown with bunchberries.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward
