crowberry
Americannoun
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the black or reddish berry of a heathlike, evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, of northern regions.
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the plant itself.
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any of certain other fruits or the plants bearing similar berries, as the bearberry.
noun
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a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
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any of several similar or related plants
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the fruit of any of these plants
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of crowberry
1590–1600; crow 1 + berry, probably translation of German Krähenbeere
Example Sentences
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We walked onto a bluff padded in low-growing crowberry and Arctic thyme.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
Seeing a reindeer nonchalantly munching on berries and grass and a ptarmigan comfortably nestled in a patch of crowberry bushes led me to think the fire was no longer an issue.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2018
A ways down the road we found equally varied botany: dwarf willows, crowberry plants and alpine bearberry shrubs that would turn crimson in two months.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2016
I am wading among crimson heath and purple heather, where the crowberry and cranberry grow in patches of green.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Stables, Gordon
They seemed to be feeding to some extent on the patches of crowberry and dwarf birch.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis
This fall, Mr. Bang, a towering 35-year-old, is testing out crowberries, an Inuit favorite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2017
Renn was kneeling at the mouth of the cave, trying to feed Wolf a handful of crowberries.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
At last he found a handful of crowberries, and gulped them down.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
The women gathered cranberries and crowberries in great plenty; and as the night came on, the weather became more moderate.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander
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