cloudberry
Americannoun
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the orange-yellow edible fruit of a creeping plant, Rubus chamaemorus, of the rose family, related to the raspberries and blackberries and restricted to northern regions.
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the plant itself.
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Torched dessert cracks like ice, crème brûlée with salted caramel mousse and cloudberry compote, fire and frost in one spoonful.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
Some of my most successful table spreads have included cloudberry jam from Norway, hot sauce from Belize, Japanese matcha, paprika chips from Spain, Portuguese sardines and dukkah, an Egyptian spice mix.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
In the morning, congratulating myself on not having used the emergency phone, I breakfasted on cloudberry doughnuts and homemade dried reindeer.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
The cloudberry harvest was down as well because it was too hot for the beautiful alpine fruit.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2018
Poor old grand-dad thed at cloudberry time, and Uncle Onk b inefficient We were looking for somebody to follow.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Henry heads straight for the grill while Pia collects cloudberries and prepares mocktails inspired by their natural surroundings.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Southwards, the coast yields to low stands of dwarf birch and willow, sphagnum bogs of arctic cotton grass, pitcher plants, blueberries, lingonberries, and cloudberries.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019
Now in her 20s, she grew up in a village near Viiankiaapa and spent her childhood fishing for pike and picking cloudberries in the reserve.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2019
“We had an early season and the cloudberries ripened really fast,” said Mr. Bjorkmann, adding that the berry season had outstripped the arrival of the pickers, who came too late.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2018
You could see it in summer, when the land was a riot of lingonberries and crowberries and cloudberries, mixed in among the moss and tiny orchids and the reddish-purple sweet vetch.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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