bearberry (English, noun)
expansion: bearberry (plural bearberries)
Senses:
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
common bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi).
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry, black bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpinus)
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
red bearberry (Arctous rubra, syn. Arctostaphylos rubra)
glosses: Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
A similar berry of temperate south-central China (Arctous microphylla).
glosses: Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii).
Forms:
form: bearberries
tags: plural