lowbush blueberry

[ loh-boosh ]

/ ˈloʊˌbʊʃ /

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noun

a shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium, of eastern North America, having small, white flowers and blue-black fruit.

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Origin of lowbush blueberry

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; low¹ + bush¹

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How to use lowbush 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.
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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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Hard maples and oaks grew crimson and scarlet and the blueberry bushes and sumachs glowed like piles of fire.
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