Search Result for "vaccinium_pennsylvanicum":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries;
[syn: low-bush blueberry, low blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, Vaccinium pennsylvanicum]


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 pennsylvanicum n 1: low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries [syn: low-bush blueberry, low blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, Vaccinium pennsylvanicum]