Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium of the heath family having edible blue, black, or red berries, especially the bilberry.
- noun The fruit of any of these plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shrub, Vaceinium Myrtillus, or its fruit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In England, the fruit of
Vaccinium Myrtillus ; also, the plant itself. Seebilberry , 1. - noun The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See
huckleberry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
shrubs belonging to the genusVaccinium . - noun A
berry of one of these shrubs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
- noun blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Tall pines, a thin growth, stood wherever we turned our eyes, and the ground was covered with the dwarf palmetto, and the whortleberry, which is here an evergreen.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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Only a few plants, such as the grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium) and elk sedge (Carex geyeri), grew in the dense shade.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Only a few plants, such as the grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium) and elk sedge (Carex geyeri), grew in the dense shade.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Only a few plants, such as the grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium) and elk sedge (Carex geyeri), grew in the dense shade.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Only a few plants, such as the grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium) and elk sedge (Carex geyeri), grew in the dense shade.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The sequel, Edwardian Farm begins tonight – a 12-parter this time, on rural life at the turn of the century, covering everything from goat-rearing to whortleberry selling.
Edwardian Farm has a hard-working act to follow Lucy Mangan 2010
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Sami reindeer herders from Kaldoaivi in Utsjoki have observed that berries such as bog whortleberry ( '' Vaccinium uliginosum '') have almost disappeared in some areas.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Bog whortleberry (or bog bilberry – '' Vaccinium uliginosum ''), lingonberry, and mountain crowberry showed increases in leaf ice nucleation temperature exceeding 2.5 °C whereas bilberry showed no significant effect, as in another study [99].
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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In the subarctic, measurements of stem length, branching, leaf thickness, flowering, berry production, phenology, and total UV-B radiation absorbing compounds were affected significantly by ambient UV-B radiation levels in only two of three dwarf shrubs (i.e., bog whortleberry and lingonberry [112]).
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation 2009
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Understory growth is not luxuriant, consisting mostly of grouse whortleberry, Oregon grape, and birchleaf spirea.
john commented on the word whortleberry
Erect blueberries. Nice.
November 4, 2007
seanahan commented on the word whortleberry
Wow, "erect European blueberry", hilarious.
November 4, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word whortleberry
I wouldn't have anything to do with a flaccid European blueberry, would you?
So this is a real word?
November 11, 2007
sionnach commented on the word whortleberry
This word is so funny, it could be named chortleberry.
November 11, 2007
reesetee commented on the word whortleberry
SoG, you actually want us to answer that?
November 11, 2007