black bearberry

black bearberry
noun
deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
Hypernyms: ↑bearberry

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noun
: a depressed arctic-alpine shrub (Arctostaphylos alpinus) with evergreen leaves and black fruit

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