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- noun Plural form of
cowberry .
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Examples
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While figuring out what cowberries were, I mentioned them to a few people to see if they had heard of them before.
Cloudberries Annemarie 2007
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While figuring out what cowberries were, I mentioned them to a few people to see if they had heard of them before.
Archive 2007-08-01 Annemarie 2007
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Lingonberries or cowberries are the fruit of a European relative of the cranberry, V. vitis-idaea; they have a distinctive, complex flavor.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Lingonberries or cowberries are the fruit of a European relative of the cranberry, V. vitis-idaea; they have a distinctive, complex flavor.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Stay as happy as Norwegians by hunting elk and foraging for cowberries.
CNN.com 2012
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It is a maiden gathering berries or nuts; in a basket of simple bark she offers you freshly gathered cowberries, rosy as her lips.
Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826
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Around me here the greybearded moss showed silver, streaked with the blue of dark, crushed berries; there heathery hillocks shone red, decked with cowberries as with rosaries of coral. —
Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Adam Mickiewicz 1826
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In autumn this is one of Britain's finest sights: birch and aspen in golden clouds around the evergreen pines, while on the forest floor heathers still flower among the blaeberries and cowberries.
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2008
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In autumn this is one of Britain's finest sights: birch and aspen in golden clouds around the evergreen pines, while on the forest floor heathers still flower among the blaeberries and cowberries.
British Blogs 2008
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