Definitions
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- adjective Being, or coming from, a
bush of lowstature (used in names of certain fruits, such aslowbush blueberry and lowbush cranberry).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wild berries, like those common in Maine, are called lowbush.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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The understory of these forests is a variety of shrubs, mostly of the oak and heath family, such as lowbush blueberry and black huckleberry.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey 2007
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Highbush cranberries are a fruit of the honeysuckle, and completely different fruit than the lowbush or commercial cranberry.
VEGAN IN WHITEHORSE? Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007
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Highbush cranberries are a fruit of the honeysuckle, and completely different fruit than the lowbush or commercial cranberry.
Archive 2007-10-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007
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Smaller plants are mostly grasses, lowbush blueberry, and sweet-fern.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Smaller plants are mostly grasses, lowbush blueberry, and sweet-fern.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Smaller plants are mostly grasses, lowbush blueberry, and sweet-fern.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Little red berries, like blood stars, peeped at them from the setting of silk lace moss -- wintergreen berries, and grouse berries, and lowbush cranberries, all blushing a furious red.
The Outcasts William Alexander Fraser 1896
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They smiled and continued down slope, past a bank of lowbush blueberries and white wood asters.
NYT > Home Page By MARIELLE ANZELONE 2011
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Juice extracted from North American lowbush blueberries, biotransformed with bacteria from the skin ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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