highbush blueberry

[ hahy-boosh ]

/ ˈhaɪˌbʊʃ /

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noun

a spreading, bushy shrub, Vaccinium corymbosum, of eastern North America, having small, urn-shaped, white or pinkish flowers, and bluish-black edible fruit, growing about 10 feet (3 meters) high.

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Origin of highbush blueberry

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; high + bush¹

Words nearby highbush blueberry

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How to use highbush blueberry in a sentence

She has baked delicious blueberry muffins for me to eat during this interview.
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This past weekend, my 5-year-old boy and I made blueberry muffins from scratch.
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Every week he tried something new: banana, blueberry, strawberry, combinations, you name it.
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From blueberry-free blueberry muffins to nutty cereals with no nuts, how foodmakers hoodwink their customers.
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After we had had out our laugh, Lop-Ear and I curved back in our flight and got breakfast in the blueberry swamp.
Before Adam|Jack London
Most of the survivors fled toward the blueberry swamp and took refuge in the forest in that neighborhood.
Before Adam|Jack London
Slight bendings and bruises of the blueberry and laurel scrub caught her notice.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts
As the sides of the gully were covered with blueberry bushes, the young Delaware understood why the bear had chosen that route.
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The Pembina River took its name from anepeminan, the Ojibwa term for the shrub we call highbush cranberry.
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