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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries;
[syn: high-bush blueberry, tall bilberry, swamp blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blueberry \Blue"berry\, n. [Cf. Blaeberry.] (Bot.) The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Vaccinium corymbosum n 1: high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries [syn: high- bush blueberry, tall bilberry, swamp blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum]