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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The lingonberry or cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea. Canada
2. 2
   North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries wordnet
3. 3
   small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

actaea rubrared baneberryred baneberryred berryred-berryrhamnus croceus

Etymology

From red + berry.

Related phrases

vaccinium vitis idaea

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