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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A creeping perennial herb (Rubus chamaemorus) in the rose family, native to northern North America and Eurasia and having white flowers and edible yellowish fruit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A species of dwarf raspberry, Rubus Chamæmorus, with a creeping root-stock and simple stem, from 4 to 8 inches high.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A species of slow-growing bramble.
  • noun The fruit of these plants.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries

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  • "'I taught him about crowberries and cloudberries. You can eat this one raw or in a salad,' she says, pointing to a photograph of brook saxifrage. 'And you can eat the roots of these two—wild celery and what the book calls Parry's wallflower.'"

    —James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 244

    September 17, 2008