highbush blueberry

[hahy-boosh]

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of highbush blueberry¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; high + bush ¹

Example Sentences

Native edibles such as highbush blueberry, blackberries, pawpaw trees, and American persimmon trees make great additions to the landscape.

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One year, we threw a net over a big highbush blueberry plant, and a bird got caught inside, with nothing to eat but blueberries.

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In the 1850s, Thoreau charted when Walden Pond’s highbush blueberry first flowered.

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Hybridizers in southern agricultural schools, particularly the University of Georgia and the University of Florida, have been able to cross the highbush blueberry with rabbiteye and other species to create a type known as southern highbush.

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The traditional highbush blueberry, the sort you might find in the blueberry fields of New Jersey or Michigan, doesn’t fly in states like Florida because it needs long, cold winters to set fruiting buds.

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