Mossberry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry.

    "Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon."

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crowberryrockberry

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"Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon."

Etymology

From moss + berry.

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