bunchberry
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bunchberry
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Dix organized work parties to clear paths and applied for a $2,200 King Conservation District grant to landscape and replant it with native plants — bunchberry, Oregon grape, flowering currant, salal.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
One of the fastest actions in the plant world is the explosive opening of flowers on the bunchberry dogwood, which happens in just under 0.5 milliseconds.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2012
Four of the seventeen species found in the United States are trees; the rest are shrubs, one of them the low-growing bunchberry of our Northern woods.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen
Do not mistake the bunchberry for the wintergreen.
From On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls by Beard, Lina
On the way we passed great beds of blossoming cloudberries, which with blossoms of the bunchberry, the Labrador tea, and the pale laurel, made up the list of flowers found so far.
From Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador by Hubbard, Mina Benson
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 Frederick, Edmund
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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
Close beneath her eyes was an exquisite tuft of pink bell-heather intergrown with bunchberries.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Beard, Lina
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
