Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An erroneous form of
winberry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
bilberry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
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Examples
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On either side stretched an expanse of gorse and whinberry bushes, interspersed with patches of grass, where sheep were feeding.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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On and on over what seemed an interminable reach of coarse grass and whinberry-bushes, jumping tiny brooks, and skirting round sometimes to avoid bogs, for much of the ground was spongy, and though its surface of sphagnum moss looked inviting, it was treacherous in the extreme.
For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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For a summer treat why not plant the Highbush Blueberry, related to our own whinberry, but as an import from America that much larger.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Erupting at regular intervals from its mantle of purple heather and lime green whinberry bushes are outcrops of wild, jagged tors, interlaced by ancient tracks.
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009
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a wheatear would pause for a moment on a gorse stump, flirting its brown tail before it flew out of sight, or young rabbits would peep from the whinberry bushes and whisk away into cover.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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